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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Damien Gayle

Senior officers ordered ‘unlawful’ arrests of journalists at Just Stop Oil protests

Police closing the M25 during a Just Stop Oil protest.
Four journalists were arrested during the Just Stop Oil protest, which saw protesters climb gantries above the M25 motorway. Photograph: Just Stop Oil/PA

Senior police officers ordered the potentially unlawful arrests of four journalists detained while covering climate protests on the M25, a review has found.

The review makes clear that the arrests of the LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch, the press photographer Tom Bowles, the film-maker Rich Felgate and one other person who has not been named were not simply an overreaction or a mistake by police officers on the ground.

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