Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by authorities

Photojournalists reporting on anti-lockdown protest in UK face threats of arrest from police

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Journalists and photographers covering an anti-lockdown protest in London were ordered to leave and threatened with arrest by police. Photographers covering the event had reported that police were “hostile and very aggressive” towards members of the press throughout the evening.

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