{"id":513403,"date":"2026-04-05T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:45:08","slug":"two-arrested-during-peace-protests-outside-raf-lakenheath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513403\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested during peace protests outside RAF Lakenheath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lakenheath Alliance for Peace organiser Peter Lux said RAF bases needed to be held &#8220;accountable&#8221; when letting US planes take off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said protesters had seen between 116 and 118 US fighter bombers departing the base in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely an RAF base, it&#8217;s sovereign territory, and so Britain is actually legally liable for what happens at that base,&#8221; said Lux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s blockade was part of a six-day peace camp involving an around-the-clock vigil outside the gates, ending on April 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The protesters had prepared a letter highlighting their concerns that was intended for the Lakenheath base commanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we need the accountability of those bases, particularly with what&#8217;s going on in Iran, which the British government have said they&#8217;re not happy about because of international law,&#8221; said Lux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakenheath Alliance for Peace organiser Peter Lux said RAF bases needed to be held &#8220;accountable&#8221; when letting US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513403","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=513403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}