Met Raids Quaker Meeting House and stops six women at Youth Demand Talk | News in the United Kingdom
The police broke into a meeting house Quaccheri and arrested six women who participated in a meeting of the youthful question of the protest group.
More than 20 policemen in uniform, some equipped with Taser, made their way in the Westminster meeting house at 7.15 pm, according to a Quaccheri declaration.
“Nobody was arrested in a Quacchero meeting house in the living memory,” said Paul Parker, employed for the Quaccheri in Great Britain.
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the strong removal of young people who keep a group of protest group clearly shows what happens when a society criminalizes.
“Freedom of speech, the assembly and fried processes are an essential part of the free public debate which is the basis of democracy”.
In a video published on Youth Demand Facebook pageA woman who claimed to have participated in the meeting described him as a “publicly publicized welcome speech” on the group. He said the police seized participants’s telephones and laptops.
The youthful question is described as “a non -violent civil resistance campaign to the guidance of young people who asks the United Kingdom to arise Israel and cancels all the new oil and gas granted since 2021”.
The Quaccheri declaration states that “they strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship” and indicated the most rigorous laws of protests of the protests introduced by the police, crime, sentence and court 2022 and public order 2023, who supported were directly responsible for the raid.
The Met police said she arrested six people during the meeting on charges of conspiracy to cause public discomfort. He said he arrested five other people for the same offense on Friday – four in London and one at Exeter.
The police said that the arrested were part of the youthful question and said that those who participated in the meeting were planning direct actions in the capital next month.
“The question of young people said the intention of” closing “London in April using tactics including” swarm “and road blocks,” said the police.
“While we absolutely recognize the importance of the right to protest, we have the responsibility to intervene to prevent the activity that crosses the line from the protest in serious interruptions and other crime”.
The police said that all arrested had been released on bail, except one who was released and will not have to face further actions.
The Quaccheri, a nickname for members of the religious society of friends, follow a religious tradition that grew by Protestant Christianity in the 17th century.
The Quaccheri have a long history of support for protest movements and non -violence is one of their fundamental beliefs.
