{"id":1765,"date":"2024-08-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2024-08-25T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T08:49:36","slug":"christian-woman-arrested-for-silent-prayer-receives-compensation-from-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/2024\/08\/19\/christian-woman-arrested-for-silent-prayer-receives-compensation-from-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian woman arrested for silent prayer receives compensation from police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a victory against UK censorship, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce \u2013 the Christian charitable volunteer who was seen being arrested twice for praying silently in &#8216;buffer zones&#8217; around abortion clinics \u2013 has received a payout of \u00a313,000 from West Midlands Police in acknowledgement of her unjust treatment and the breach of her human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isabel commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There is no place for Orwell\u2019s \u2018thought police\u2019 in 21st Century Britain, and thanks to legal support I received from ADF UK, I\u2019m delighted that the settlement that I have received today acknowledges that. Yet despite this victory, I am deeply concerned that this violation could be repeated at the hands of other police forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in this <a href=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/en-gb\/news\/silent-prayer-arrest-payout\">press release<\/a> from ADF UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory against UK censorship, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce \u2013 the Christian charitable volunteer who was seen being arrested twice for praying silently in viral videos \u2013 has received a payout of \u00a313,000 from West Midlands Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,36],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abortion","tag-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}