Police have truly plundered a Quaker convention residence and jailed 6 girls collaborating in a celebration of the demonstration group Youth Demand.
More than 20 uniformed cops, some equipped with Tasers, compelled their means proper into the Westminster convention residence at 7.15 pm, in keeping with a declaration by the Quakers.
“No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” acknowledged Paul Parker, the recording employees for Quakers in Britain.
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful elimination of younger individuals holding a protest group assembly clearly exhibits what occurs when a society criminalises protest.
“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”
In a video clip uploaded on Youth Demand’s Facebook page, a woman that asserted to have truly gone to the convention defined it as a “publicly advertised welcome talk” relating to the group. She acknowledged cops took attenders’ telephones and laptop computer computer systems.
Youth Demand defines itself as “a youth-led nonviolent civil resistance campaign demanding the UK stops arming Israel and cancels all new oil and gas granted since 2021”.
The Quakers’ declaration acknowledged they “strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship” and indicated the extra stringent opposing legislations generated by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023, which they asserted have been straight in control of the raid.
The Met cops acknowledged it had truly jailed 6 people on the convention on uncertainty of conspiracy principle to create a public annoyance. It acknowledged it jailed 5 different people for the exact same offense on Friday– 4 in London and one in Exeter.
The cops acknowledged these jailed grew to become a part of Youth Demand and asserted these collaborating within the convention have been intending straight exercise within the assets following month.
“Youth Demand have stated an intention to ‘shut down’ London over the month of April using tactics including ‘swarming’ and road blocks,” cops acknowledged.
“While we absolutely recognise the importance of the right to protest, we have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality.”
Police acknowledged all these jailed had truly been launched on bond, apart from one which was launched and will definitely cope with no extra exercise.
Quakers, a label for contributors of the Religious Society of Friends, adjust to a non secular observe that expanded from Protestant Christianity within the seventeenth century.
Quakers have a prolonged background of sustaining demonstration actions and nonviolence is amongst their core concepts.
