{"id":15862,"date":"2009-10-31T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15862"},"modified":"2013-10-10T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T08:45:06","slug":"fights-at-anti-fascist-protest-at-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/31\/fights-at-anti-fascist-protest-at-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fights at anti-fascist protest at Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hundreds of anti-fascism protesters have gathered in a city centre to demonstrate against a planned protest by a far right-wing group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/A18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minor scuffles broke out between police and protesters as around 400 Unite Against Fascism activists descended on Leeds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officers were trying to shepherd them towards a square outside the city&#8217;s art gallery to ensure they were kept apart from rival English Defence League demonstrators who are due to meet later this afternoon a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of police officers, including a mounted section, were deployed in the city centre to keep the rival groups apart.<\/p>\n<p>A police helicopter circled above while activists from Unite Against Fascism shouted slogans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demonstrators carried placards and banners and shouted &#8220;Fascist scum off our streets&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scuffles broke out as police officers linked arms and moved the protesters towards the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>One protester was grabbed by officers and dragged towards a nearby police van.<\/p>\n<p>Several streets in the city were closed as the demonstrations took place.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.pressassociation.com\/component\/pafeeds\/2009\/10\/31\/scuffles_at_anti_fascist_protest_1?camefrom=home\">Press Association<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of anti-fascism protesters have gathered in a city centre to demonstrate against a planned protest by a far right-wing group. Minor scuffles broke out between police and protesters as around 400 Unite Against Fascism activists descended on Leeds. Officers were trying to shepherd them towards a square outside the city&#8217;s art gallery to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":15863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[2396,2397,2395,1135,1612],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-anti-fascist-protest","tag-fascist-scum-off-our-streets","tag-fights","tag-leeds","tag-unite-against-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}