[ Arrests in Major Free Speech Protests (UK, Germany, France 2025)]

This horizontal bar chart illustrates arrests from key 2025 protest events tied to free speech issues (e.g., pro-Palestine, anti-immigration, anti-government), showing the scale of suppression in Western Europe. Data aggregated from major incidents for comparability.

Amnesty International. "UK: Further information: 857 protestors arrested in one day." https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur45/0273/2025/en/ (For UK); Le Monde. "Takeaways from France's 'Block Everything' protests." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/09/12/takeaways-from-france-s-block-everything-protests-a-lot-of-anger-is-building-up-around-issues-of-social-injustice_6745326_5.html (For France); International Viewpoint. "Germany and the Repressive Apparatus Against the Pro-Palestinian Movement." https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article9046 (For Germany).
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