The U.S. government has called the arrest of a pro-life campaigner in Scotland for breaching the country’s buffer zone laws “tyrannical.”
Rose Docherty was arrested by four police officers in Glasgow on Sept. 24 for allegedly violating the law on buffer zones near abortion clinics.
She was detained by police outside Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital while holding a sign that read, “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, which came into force in September 2024, prohibits campaigners from being within 200 meters of clinics providing abortions in Scotland.
“The arrest of Rose Docherty is another egregious example of the tyrannical suppression of free speech happening across Europe,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times….