UK thugs arrested over 500 Extinction Rebellion protesters in London.

The excuse in many cases was Covid-19. Of course, protesters must take care not to spread Covid-19, but did they really fail to do that? I expect Extinction Rebellion to be very careful about health.

One of their protests was blocking delivery of Murdoch's right-wing denialist almost-monopoly newspapers.

This has been labeled an "attack on the free press". If they kept it up for a long time, I would agree, but they did it for just one day.