{"id":403292,"date":"2025-09-06T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403292\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:30:14","slug":"three-men-arrested-and-more-expected-following-weekend-protests-across-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403292\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested and more expected following weekend protests across Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three men were arrested and police said that more are expected following protests across Edinburgh on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cNo to the Far-Right\u201d protest, organised by Stand Up To Racism Edinburgh, took place at the Scottish Parliament on Saturday, with protestors starting to gather from 11am.<\/p>\n<p>A Force For Good, in association with WeSayItPodcast, held a second Enough is Enough rally, also outside the Scottish Parliament, from 12pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Many also displayed support for Palestine Action, a group that was banned by the UK government under terrorism laws earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The protest came after warnings from Police Scotland that showing support for the organisation is an offence under the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n<p>Two men, aged 67 and 82, were arrested in connection with the Terrorism Act, while a 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that enquiries remain ongoing into a number of offences relating to the Terrorism Act and that evidence is being reviewed with further action expected.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Superintendent David Robertson said: \u201cWhile these protests were conducted peacefully and largely without incident, there were a number of offences identified relating to the Terrorism Act. Substantial evidence of these offences was gathered at the time which will form the basis of a post incident investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice Scotland is a rights-based organisation and our role is to ensure public safety while balancing the rights of protesters who wish to peacefully demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolicing in Scotland has strong relationships with the public and we are grateful for the ongoing support of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men were arrested and police said that more are expected following protests across Edinburgh on Saturday. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}