Nine adults will face court following an unauthorised protest near Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 10am today (Wednesday 25 September 2024), police were called to a rail corridor near Maitland Road, Sandgate after reports of an unauthorised protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and arrested four men \u2013 aged 24, 48, 60 and 69 \u2013 and five women \u2013 aged 18, 20, 23, 42 and 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were taken to Newcastle Police Station and were all charged with cause obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock, enter enclosed non-agricultural lands with a serious safety risk, and enter enclosed land not prescribed premises without a lawful excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All nine were refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court on Thursday 26 September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nine adults will face court following an unauthorised protest near Newcastle. About 10am today (Wednesday 25 September 2024), police were called to a rail corridor near Maitland Road, Sandgate after reports of an unauthorised protest. Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and arrested four men \u2013 aged 24, 48, 60 and 69 \u2013 … Continue reading “Nine charged following unauthorised protest – Newcastle”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-29245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29246,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29245\/revisions\/29246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}