Overview

• The Metropolitan Police used powers under the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 to bar a masked protest group from demonstrating outside the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf for 28 days after harassing residents and staff.
• Essex Police ordered protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping to end by 8:30 pm each night, confined demonstrations to a designated area and banned face coverings during protest hours.
• Protests and counter-protests have spread to hotels in Islington and Newcastle upon Tyne, resulting in nine arrests at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel and four more at the New Bridge Hotel.
• Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle warned that protests risk crossing into harassment and restated that hotels used to house asylum seekers will close by the end of this Parliament.
• Asylum seekers in hotel accommodation report escalating anxiety and fear, likening the hostility outside their doors to the persecution they fled.