{"id":4967,"date":"2008-12-03T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2008-12-03T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T11:21:18","slug":"anti-id-card-protesters-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/anti-id-card-protesters-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-ID Card Protesters Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Ward | POLICE made a dozen arrests after a group of anarchists staged a protest at the Home Office buildings in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Anarchists&#8217; Federation arrived at Vulcan House in Millsands on the Riverside in Sheffield city centre at around 8.30am to mount a protest against the Government&#8217;s ID card scheme.<\/p>\n<p>After being refused entry by security staff many of the protesters chained themselves to the building forcing hundreds of staff to enter via the emergency exits.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were warned by police that they would be arrested if they did not move on.<\/p>\n<p>By 11.30am officers had cleared the area after making 12 arrests for alleged aggravated trespass.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested were taken into custody and spent the rest of the day being questioned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editorial.jpress.co.uk\/web\/images\/4752419\/\/TH1_SST-0312-17-0212_125405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0spokesperson for the Anarchists Federation said: &#8220;The demonstration was against the national rolling out of ID cards for non-EU nationals as well as against ID cards in general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police treated us very fairly and warned us that anyone who failed to move on would be arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Information Thanks To Defy ID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Activists from around Yorkshire were involved in this.<\/p>\n<p>*Noone was refused entry as noone was trying to enter the building anyway. (it was shut at that time so of course noone would be allowed in)<\/p>\n<p>*11 people were arrested, not 12.<\/p>\n<p>*By 8pm everyone had been released with a caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Ward | POLICE made a dozen arrests after a group of anarchists staged a protest at the Home Office buildings in Sheffield. Members of the Anarchists&#8217; Federation arrived at Vulcan House in Millsands on the Riverside in Sheffield city centre at around 8.30am to mount a protest against the Government&#8217;s ID card scheme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1615],"tags":[37,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-id-cards","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}