Live Exports

On Tuesday 11th July, Essex police inflicted extreme pain and violent torture on anti live export protesters who had formed a human blockade at the Essex port of Brightlingsea.

18 Protesters were chained underneath a bus. Police officers entered the coach without warning by smashing their way through the doors. They had bolt croppers, but they were totally useless, since the chains were not accessible. The police officers proceeded by inflicting so much pain on the chained up protesters, that they had to undo their chains. In some cases the pain was inflicted by squeezing testicles, twisting limbs and applying stiff handcuffs as a lever to dislocate joints and to damage the soft tissue on the wrists.