Spokesperson Graham Smith said: “Republicans have every right to protest against the monarchy, on any day and at any time. We support the police’s right to uphold law and order and to deal with actual criminality, but when peaceful protesters are being arrested before they’ve done anything, when they are being held overnight simply to ensure they can’t make their voices heard, then that’s a serious threat to what little democracy we have in this country.”
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