The anti-monarchists were arrested in Oxford, England, and in the Scottish capital Edinburgh, where the queen's body is resting.
that he had come across the event by chance while walking home from church.
Hill said after he shouted"who elected him?" three security guards approached and the police came and arrested him, taking him off in a van, despite other people nearby saying he was entitled to free speech. The tutor later tweeted:"I was arrested today in #Oxford after I voiced my opposition to the proclamation of"#CharlesIII". Can we be arrested simply for expressing an opinion in public? I was arrested under thehas contacted Hill for comment.Speaking toHill said:"I don't think I've ever seen anyone arrested on such threadbare grounds, let alone experienced it myself.
"I didn't in any meaningful sense disrupt the ceremony; I just called out something that a few people near me would have heard, and then they carried on with the ceremony, and they [the police] collared me. I find it really alarming that you can be arrested for expressing an opinion in public. I am feeling quite shaken."
A Thames Valley police spokesperson said:"A 45-year-old man was arrested in connection with a disturbance that was caused during the county proclamation ceremony of"He has subsequently been de-arrested and is engaging with us voluntarily as we investigate a public order offense. The man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offense [under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986].
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