{"id":405734,"date":"2025-09-07T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:09:20","slug":"three-men-charged-following-protests-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405734\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men charged following protests in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Meanwhile, a\u00a063-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The three were later released and reports were submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Enquiries are ongoing, and police say evidence is being reviewed, with further action expected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSubstantial evidence of these offences was gathered, which will form the basis of a post incident investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPolicing in Scotland has strong relationships with the public and we are grateful for the ongoing support of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, a\u00a063-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime. The three were later released and reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405734","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164123614852928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405734","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=405734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}