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Be honest, please; the arrests were not for "praying in your head" they were for repeatedly breaching a buffer zone and actively refusing a request to move on.

• graemep 19d ago
  You have not covered anything like all cases these, and the article makes it clear "breaching a buffer zone" was standing silently while praying. > Poole Magistrates' Court heard the former serviceman had his head bowed and hands clasped outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in Ophir Road. > The court was told he had been praying for his unborn son, who he said died from abortion 22 years ago.
  • defrost 19d ago
    In a declared buffer zone, after announcing he intended to this, and after an hour or more of refusing to move on. It was deliberate disregard of a buffer zone that applied to all that had no business within the abortion centre, whether he was praying in his head or not we'll never know and it's immaterial to the reason for the arrest.
    • graemep 19d ago
      Noneheless all he did was stand silently. There is no way it is right to criminalise standing and saying nothing.
      • defrost 17d ago
        It's not right to do so and it's not criminalised. Again, he was arrested for entering an exclusion zone and refusing to leave for an hour. There are many no trespass areas for a variety of reasons, and, as the saying goes, trespassers can and will be prosecuted - whether they are praying or not.