Mr Beesley said if the council failed to persuade the protesters to move on, they could use apply for an order to evict the protest camp.

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For starters, its president, Vladimir Putin, signed an order this year that banned certain public protest.

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Earlier this year it published a controversial photograph showing soldiers in the Royal Irish Regiment posing with an Orange Order banner associated with the Drumcree protest in Portadown.

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Five men charged with public order offences following an English Defence League (EDL) protest in Leicester have pleaded not guilty.

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On 17 July, 21 arrests were made during a police operation at an EDL protest in Dudley - 17 for violent disorder, two for affray, one for a public order offence and one for possession of an offensive weapon.

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