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Extinction Rebellion has spoken out against the new Public Order Bill (PA)

Extinction Rebellion to bring ‘millions on to streets’ amid protest law change

May 11, 2022

Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers are determined to prevent protesters bringing the country to ‘a grinding halt’ (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Government in fresh bid to crack down on ‘guerrilla’ protests

May 10, 2022

Sherrilyn Speid has been banned from driving after using her Range Rover to try to move Insulate Britain protesters who were blocking the road while she was on the school run (Ian West/PA)

UK

Woman banned from road after driving at Insulate Britain protesters

May 6, 2022

Just Stop Oil of campaigners stage a protest in the Shell petrol garage at the Cobham Services on the M25 in Cobham, Surrey (PA)

UK

Four climate activists charged over protests at motorway service stations

April 29, 2022

Nicola Sturgeon said the place for such protest should be outside the Parliament (PA)

Sturgeon: Anti-abortion protests should be outside Parliament, not hospitals

April 21, 2022

A member of Sri Lanka’s opposition political party National People’s Power waves country’s national flag as he participates in an anti-government protest rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Sri Lanka’s prime minister said Tuesday the constitution will be changed to clip presidential powers and empower Parliament as protesters continued to call on the president and his powerful family to quit over the country’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

World

Widespread protests grip Sri Lanka after demonstrator shot dead by police

April 20, 2022

Handout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of protesters who have blocked access to the Titan Truck Park in Grays, Essex, where they claim to have constructed a secret underground network of tunnels at the Navigator and Grays oil terminals. The protesters are demanding that the UK Government stops new oil and gas projects. Issue date: Saturday April 2, 2022. (Handout/PA)

UK

Fuel protests put police force under ‘real strain’ and cost over £1m

April 8, 2022

More than 200 people have been arrested as climate change activists enter a third day of protests at oil terminals (Jacob King/PA)

UK

More than 200 arrests made at climate change protests

April 3, 2022

Activists from Just Stop Oil block the route of a tanker as they blockade the Esso Birmingham Fuel Terminal (PA)

UK

Dozens of climate change protesters arrested after 10 oil terminals blocked

April 1, 2022

Just Stop Oil activists at Kingsbury (Just Stop Oil/PA)

UK

Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protesters block 10 oil terminals

April 1, 2022

A group called Just Stop Oil said it had blocked seven ‘key oil’ terminals early on Friday as police said they were dealing with activists (Just Stop Oil)

UK

Activists claim to have blocked key oil terminals as police called in

April 1, 2022

Police are responding to activists at a site in Tyburn, Birmingham (Joe Giddens/PA)

UK

Activists target site in Birmingham as motorists asked to ‘avoid the area’

April 1, 2022

Protesters (bottom, left to right) Charlotte Kirian, Hazel Stenaon, Caspar Hughes, Laura Frandsen, Elise Yard and Amur Jones outside St Albans Magistrates’ Court (Extinction Rebellion/PA)

UK

Officer ‘surprised’ by Patel’s late night call to superior during XR protest

March 15, 2022

People demonstrate against the war in Ukraine in Berlin (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

World

Anti-war protests held across Europe

March 13, 2022

Russian protesters join a rally against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Trafalgar Square, London. (PA/Rebecca Speare-Cole)

Russians and Ukrainian protesters condemn ‘shame’ and ‘nightmare’ of invasion

February 27, 2022

(Jonathan Brady/PA)

London protesters tell of anger at Putin over Ukraine invasion

February 26, 2022

Climate activists block a road in Hamburg, Germany (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)

World

Climate protests targeting roads condemned by German officials

February 21, 2022

A trucker removes a flag of Canada from the hood of their vehicle as truckers prepare to drive away after participating in a blockade on Metcalfe Street in Ottawa, Ontario (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

World

Canada’s protests settle down but could echo in politics

February 20, 2022

Police arrest a demonstrator as they work to bring a protest, which started in opposition to mandatory Covid-19 vaccine mandates and grew into a broader anti-government demonstration and occupation, to an end, in Ottawa, Ontario (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

World

More than 100 people arrested as police clear out Ottawa protesters

February 19, 2022

A seafood lorry used in the protest in London.

Scottish politics

Fergus Ewing: Seafood industry needs more cash to cope with Brexit delays

January 19, 2021

World

US Election 2020: Protestors clash with police in Washington after two men detained

November 4, 2020

Hong Kong Bill: Alistair Carmichael says UK Government ‘sitting on its hands’

October 13, 2020

A scoop of tear gas flavour ice cream (AP)

Hong Kong shop offers ‘tear gas’ flavour ice cream

May 15, 2020

Shell's Brent plans were the subject of Greenpeace protests earlier this week.

UK

Shell seeks injunction against Greenpeace to outlaw North Sea protests

November 25, 2019

Please credit Mark Richards

Moray

Moray members of climate protest group which caused chaos in London reflect on ‘powerful experience’

October 24, 2019

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