{"id":383294,"date":"2026-01-22T01:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:45:28","slug":"police-make-arrests-as-hundreds-descend-on-curry-mile-for-second-night-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383294\/","title":{"rendered":"Police make arrests as hundreds descend on Curry Mile for second night of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Large numbers of protesters and police are on Wilmslow Road on Wednesday night<\/p>\n

Tom Burnett Content Editor<\/p>\n

23:31, 21 Jan 2026Updated 23:49, 21 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

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Police in Rusholme on Wednesday night(Image: Ryan Jenkinson)<\/p>\n

Police have arrested a number of people after hundreds descended on Manchester’s iconic Curry Mile for a second night of protests.<\/p>\n

Photos and video from the scene at around 11pm on Wednesday (January 21) show large numbers of police at the scene on Wilmslow Road, Rusholme.<\/p>\n

The Manchester Evening News <\/a>understands a number of arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

A number of people have also received dispersal orders tonight, which require them to leave the area or face arrest.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police has yet to issue a statement on the latest incident.<\/p>\n

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Police in Rusholme tonight(Image: Ryan Jenkinson)<\/p>\n

It comes following disorder on Tuesday following a largely peaceful protest connected to clashes in Syria between the government and the majority Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north east of the Middle Eastern country.<\/a><\/p>\n

Syria is recovering from the aftermath of a long-running multi-sided civil war that eventually saw the nation’s long serving dictator Bashar Al-Assad flee the country in late 2024.<\/p>\n

Rebels led by Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former jihadist and now the country’s president, seized the capital city of Damascus and have been trying to consolidate their control over the country since then.<\/p>\n

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is led by Syria’s large Kurdish community, seized control of areas of the north east of the country during the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large numbers of protesters and police are on Wilmslow Road on Wednesday night Tom Burnett Content Editor 23:31,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2847,50,145146,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greater-manchester-police","tag-news","tag-rusholme","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}