{"id":732111,"date":"2026-08-09T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732111\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:22:14","slug":"arrests-after-anti-immigration-and-counter-protests-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732111\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after anti-immigration and counter protests in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten people have been arrested after anti-immigration and counter protesters marched through Bristol city centre.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations began in Queen’s Square at about 10:30 BST before stopping on Bristol Bridge and outside Bridewell Police Station, and finally ending at the Cenotaph.<\/p>\n

Avon and Somerset Police said an estimated 150 anti-immigration protesters and 300 counter protesters took part, with Supt Karen Corrigan said adding there were “pockets of disorder, especially at the Cenotaph”.<\/p>\n

Six of those arrested were suspected of concealing their identity at a protest, an offence covered by new rules, external<\/a> which enable police to create a designated zone where face coverings are not allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten people have been arrested after anti-immigration and counter protesters marched through Bristol city centre. Demonstrations began in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732111","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\/732111","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=732111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}