After six hours blocking the main entrance to the ExCel centre, the police have now begun to remove activists from the road.
At 2.15 pm, the police began to clear the arm tube blockade which was preventing exhibitors setting up their stalls for the DSEi arms fair which starts next week. A report from the site said that the police were using pressure points including standing on a woman's back. The police have also produced cutting equipment to remove the arm tubes. Four people have so far been arrested there, and probably more will follow.
A tripod blockade on the West entrance of the site had been cleared half an hour earlier with eight arrests (they are being held at Charing Cross police station charged with obstruction).
An amazing and effective action and a taster of things to come in the next two weeks! Well done, guys!
A tripod blockade on the West entrance of the site had been cleared half an hour earlier with eight arrests (they are being held at Charing Cross police station charged with obstruction).
An amazing and effective action and a taster of things to come in the next two weeks! Well done, guys!
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arrests
02.09.2003 12:42
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wrong arrest details
02.09.2003 17:15
Support and choclate will be appreciated.
chris b
what happened to manc lass
02.09.2003 20:02
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the last one out....
03.09.2003 10:31
thanks to the person doing legal support on the day and whoever brought food to the copshop for us - you were lifesavers as i couoldn't stomach more than a bite of the "food" they served up.
laura
to laura
04.09.2003 06:33
fair play for pleading 'not guilty', I'm not sure if I've got the energy.
chris b