On Saturday afternoon, a member of the public witnessed and filmed the arrest of Christian street preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi outside Southgate Underground station!

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Sign petition to support UK street preachers

On Saturday afternoon, a member of the public witnessed and filmed the arrest of Christian street preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi outside Southgate Underground station. Ambrosine Shitrit, a Jewish campaigner from Campaign4Truth and Eye On Antisemitism, was the witness and quickly uploaded the video and asked Christian Concern to help the preacher. The video was then watched millions of times, people around the world showing dismay at the way Oluwole had been treated.

After being handcuffed, Olu says that he was released without charge miles away, and had to rely on a member of the public to pay for his bus fare back. By Monday, Oluwole - whom we have helped before - was in our offices, talking to our legal team and explaining what had happened. You can read a detailed story of what happened on our website. Olu is just one of many street preachers who the Christian Legal Centre has helped after they were stopped from preaching on the streets of the UK. We want to see police officers respect and uphold the freedom of people to preach lawfully in public. So we have launched a petition asking the Home Secretary to review the training and guidance given to officers on policing these incidents.

We want the Home Secretary to hear our voice loudly and clearly supporting the freedom to preach publicly - so that police would be better equipped to protect, rather than arrest, street preachers. Please sign and share the petition: https://christianconcern.com/streetpreacherpetition As well as using Facebook and Twitter, could you send the link to people on WhatsApp groups you're part of?

Sign and share the petition