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‘Arrested for having an opinion’ — Man handcuffed after opposing King Charles’ unelected reign
Members of the public during an Accession Proclamation Ceremony at Mercat Cross, Edinburgh, publicly proclaiming King Charles III as the new monarch. Picture date: Sunday September 11, 2022.

A PEACE campaigner said he was handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a police van after calling out “who elected him?” at the proclamation of King Charles III in Oxford. 

Symon Hill, 45, told the Morning Star he felt he had been arrested for “having an opinion,” after he was “grabbed” by two officers and taken to a police van. 

Mr Hill, a history tutor and campaigner with the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), said he had been walking home from church when he came across crowds marking the proclamation of King Charles outside Carfax Tower in central Oxford on Sunday afternoon. 

Peace campaigner Symon Hill
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