Right-wing restriction activist Tommy Robinson was arrested in London Sunday for not complying with schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, which allows police to stop and search people. He was initially charged with illegally featuring a prohibited documentary during a rally.Right-wing activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, was arrested at the Channel tunnel in Folkestone on Sunday under Schedule Seven of the Terrorism Act 2000 for not complying with a stop and search.
The documentary, called Silenced, is about a 2021 defamation lawsuit between Robinson and a Syrian refugee named Jamal Hijazi, whom Robinson was found to have falsely accused of attacking school girls in 2021. He had to pay Hijazi £100k and ordered not to make the documentary.A day prior, Robinson had organized a "Uniting The Kingdom" rally between the Royal Courts of Justice and Trafalgar Square in London. The event was met by a coalition of counterprotestors, and a total of nine people were arrested due to clashes with police.