Climate activists from a group planning to disrupt Heathrow flights with drones have been arrested a day before their stunt.
Police said they will arrest protesters from Heathrow Pause, a splinter of Extinction Rebellion, if they fly drones illegally near the airport on Friday. But Roger Hallam, who co-founded Extinction Rebellion, and Mike Lynch-White were taken into custody today. Officers handcuffed the pair at a café in Bethnal Green, where the pair had been giving an interview to journalists, and took them away in separate cars, a Heathrow Pause spokesperson said.They later tweeted: ‘This is to activists, rebels and ordinary people everywhere. Please stand with us. We all have to rise up.’
‘If we are all arrested before we can stop this horrendous project then please continue where we left off.’
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