{"id":406222,"date":"2025-09-07T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:39:15","slug":"three-arrested-for-alleged-terror-offences-after-edinburgh-protests-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406222\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested for alleged terror offences after Edinburgh protests over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 6000 4000\" data-root=\"\/_media\/asset\/\" data-path=\"KJ6XGST0X0JQ9GN0JGVI.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/>Two men, aged 67 and 82, were arrested and charged in connection with the terrorism act (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Three men have been arrested for terror-related offences after protests in Edinburgh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Two men, aged 67 and 82, were arrested and charged in connection with the terrorism act.<\/p>\n<p>A 63-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>The three were later released and reports were submitted to the procurator fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries are ongoing, and police say 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubstantial evidence of these offences was gathered, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men, aged 67 and 82, were arrested and charged in connection with the terrorism act (Yui Mok\/PA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-406222","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\/115165185038889092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406222","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=406222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}