Media coverage of Westminster Meeting House police raid

Press

Monday 7 April

• Somerset Live Quakers protest outside Bath police station following raid

Sunday 6 April

• BBC Radio 4 Oliver Robertson interviewed on the Sunday Programme
• The Sunday Times Letters page

Friday 4 April

• The Daily Telegraph Letters page
• Oxford Mail Oxford Quaker protest after raid on London religious house

Thursday 3 April

• The Guardian Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today
• The Independent I was one of the women arrested at a Quaker meeting house. Why?
• Christian Today Quakers respond to police raid with worship meeting outside Scotland Yard
• Hot Air The Quaker Meeting House Raid Shames the Met
• Pod Save the UK The erosion of protest rights

Wednesday 2 April

• Morning Star Policing: by consent or coercion?
• Bristol Post Protesters gather in Bristol against arrests of young women

Tuesday 1 April

• The Guardian Questions raised by Met police raid on Quaker meeting house
• Morning Star Silent Quaker meeting to be held outside Scotland Yard to protest against police raid | Morning Star
• The Mirror Police raid at Quaker meeting condemned as 'unprecedented level of police repression'
• The National Quaker meeting house raid is an admission of a losing argument
• Church Times Police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House sparks criticism
• ABC Listen Quakers mentioned from 4.45 Ian Dunt's UK: why did London police arrest activists in a Quaker meeting house?
• Independent Catholic News Calls grow to restore rights after police raid on Quaker Meeting House

Monday 31 March

• The Telegraph The Quakers are no strangers to disruptive Left-wing activism
• The Spectator The police raid on a Quaker meeting house is unforgivable
• Inkl (Evening Standard) Who are the protestors behind Youth Demand, the pro-Palestine climate activism group?
• GB News There seems to be an extraordinary breakdown in the concept of defence of free speech
• LBC Police raided our Quaker meeting house. Crackdowns on peaceful protest should worry everyone
• Premier Christian News Christian Aid condemns police raid on Quaker meeting house as “chilling"
• London Review of Books As the Met bruised in
• TalkTV Quakers Condemn Police Over 'Disproportionate' Arrests Of Six Youth Demand Supporters

Sunday 30 March

• The Sunday Times Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists
• The Guardian Youth Demand says more protesters have signed up since Quaker house raid
• The Independent Quakers condemn Met Police raid as six arrested in Westminster meeting house
• BBC Quakers condemn arrests of activists at meeting house
• The New York Times London Police Arrest Gaza Protest Planners at Quaker House
• Morning Star Quakers condemn police raid after six arrested at Westminster Meeting House
• Daily Mail Quakers so incensed by 'ridiculously heavy-handed' police raid that they 'didn't even offer officers a cup of tea'
• Daily Mail Dozens of police officers batter down door of pacifist Quaker meeting house to arrest activists 'discussing climate change and Gaza'
• The Sun Cops who want to catch actual criminals must be in despair over 'non-crime hate incidents' | The Sun
• The Sun Fury as cops smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest women sitting in circle eating hummus and bread sticks
• Sky News 'Ridiculously heavy-handed' Metropolitan Police criticised after raid on Quaker meeting house to arrest protesters
• The Standard Quakers condemn Met Police over 'aggressive' arrests at 'shut down London' protest meeting
• The Tablet Quakers condemn 'criminalisation of protest' after police raid - The Tablet

Saturday 29 March

• GB News Police arrest six women who vowed to 'shut down London' over Gaza meeting at Christian house

Friday 28 March

• CNN Quakers say London police arrested six people at meeting on climate change, Gaza
• AOL Quakers say London police arrested six people at meeting on climate change, Gaza
• Skwawkbox 30+ Met police smash down Quaker meeting house doors to raid anti-genocide gathering
• The Canary Youth Demand supporters RAIDED by cops across UK as outrageous clampdown begins
• Independent Catholic News Westminster: Police raid Quaker Meeting House

Broadcast:

• Times Radio on YouTube 'Utterly inappropriate' arrests made on six women in Quaker meeting house
• Talk Radio on YouTube “Police Look Sheepish!" | Police Armed With Tasers Raid Quaker Meeting House
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC 1, timestamp 45.30 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg - Justin Welby and Abuse in the Church of England - BBC iPlayer