More than 60 Just Stop Oil protesters arrested near to Houses of Parliament
Monday, 30 October 2023 Police have arrested more than 60 protesters after Just Stop Oil carried out a demonstration next to parliament in Westminster.
Several Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after members of the group “slow marched” across carriageways around Parliament Square, causing traffic disruption.
Metropolitan Police officers took over half an hour to carry the activists off the road.
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