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Multiple Arrests as Police Enforce Public Order at Canary Wharf Migrant Hotel Protest

Section 14 orders aimed to prevent serious disruption at demonstrations targeting the Home Office’s use of hotels for asylum housing.

TOPSHOT - Protesters calling for the closure of The Bell Hotel, believed to be housing asylum seekers, gather outside, in Epping, northeast of London, on August 8, 2025. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • On August 17, Metropolitan Police officers imposed Section 14 of the Public Order Act to confine protesters to the pavement outside the Britannia International Hotel.
  • Six people were arrested for breaching protest conditions, drug possession, and assault on emergency workers during the demonstration.
  • A man in his 20s was held on suspicion of common assault after allegedly entering a local woman’s flat near the hotel.
  • Tower Hamlets resident Channay Augustus has been charged with affray and weapons offences after allegedly attempting to storm the hotel with a meat cleaver.
  • Similar protests continue nationwide at other hotels used as temporary asylum accommodation under a coordinated NPCC public-order response.