{"id":4118,"date":"2009-10-12T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/arrests-in-manchester-protests\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:42:42","slug":"arrests-in-manchester-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/arrests-in-manchester-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests in Manchester protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Protests &#8216;Relatively Peaceful&#8217;, says Greater Manchester police chief<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"218\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/EDLManchester_232x180.jpg\"\/>FORTY-eight people were arrested as two rival groups came head-to-head in Manchester on the weekend.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police in fluorescent jackets stood between hundreds of anti-Islam protesters from the English Defence League and anti-racist counter-demonstrators in the city on Saturday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Over 2,000 people gathered for the protests in Piccadilly Gardens with hundreds of police officers in riot gear separating the two groups. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police confirmed 48 arrests had been made, but added on a whole the protests were \u201cpeaceful\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan from Greater Manchester Police said: \u201cThe presence of so many protesters in the city has proved a challenge and while many have turned out to protest peacefully the police reaction has been necessary in order to prevent the few hell-bent on violent confrontation.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Previous protests by the English Defence League in Birmingham saw running battles erupt between rival groups and police. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The EDL, who have been accused of spreading an anti-Muslim agenda, have said they will continue to hold anti-Islam protests across the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The group will hold their next two protests in Wales this month, before moving on to Leeds and Nottingham. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests &#8216;Relatively Peaceful&#8217;, says Greater Manchester police chief FORTY-eight people were arrested as two rival groups came head-to-head in Manchester on the weekend. &#13; Police in fluorescent jackets stood between hundreds of anti-Islam protesters from the English Defence League and anti-racist counter-demonstrators in the city on Saturday. &#13; Over 2,000 people gathered for the protests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}