Friday, 6 November 2020

Lockdown: Met apologises for arrest threats to journalists covering protest

Police showed ‘disregard of the the principles of a free media’, says Society of Editors

Scotland Yard has apologised after journalists and photographers covering an anti-lockdown protest were told to leave and threatened with arrest.

Journalists at the demonstration protesting the new national lockdown in England in Trafalgar Square on Thursday were reportedly told by officers they were not seen as essential workers and needed special permission from the Metropolitan police service (MPS) to be present.

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