{"id":661919,"date":"2026-06-28T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:05:23","slug":"hundreds-join-anti-racism-demo-after-terrorism-linked-murder-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661919\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds join anti-racism demo after terrorism-linked murder bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people have taken part in an anti-racism demonstration, a week on from alleged anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Reclaim Our Streets rally drew support from politicians, trade unions, local people and community groups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after five people were injured in a series of incidents on 19 June, which began near a mosque in the west of the city and ended in Leith Walk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has since appeared in court charged with five counts of attempted murder linked to terrorism. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Hawkes, 36, made no plea and was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people have taken part in an anti-racism demonstration, a week on from alleged anti-Muslim attacks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661919","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=661919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}