Tensions continue over accommodation of asylum seekers in hotels on the island

Tensions continue in the UK over accommodation of asylum seekers in hotels. A total of seven people were arrested in two incidents of protest marches to the Bell Hotel in Essex County and in London, BNR reported.

The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, is at the centre of the protests because it is housing 138 asylum seekers, one of whom has been accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Essex Police issued a dispersal order and restricted the protest, stating that it must end by 8pm and that banners must not contain "offensive or inflammatory language".

Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, while another man and a woman were arrested for breaching protest orders.

Around 200 people gathered outside Epping Council, where the woman climbed the steps and waved the Union Jack before being detained by officers after she refused to leave.

A spokesman for Essex Police said her arrest was "absolutely not for waving the flag" but because the council was not a zone where protesters were allowed.

Earlier last week, a court banned the migrants from staying at the Bell Hotel and ordered them to leave by September 12, but on Friday the Court of Appeal upheld the government's appeal and overturned the ban, which sparked a new wave of protests against the government's policy of housing asylum seekers in hotels.

Four people were arrested in London at an anti-immigration protest after a group of masked men became aggressive towards citizens and police, and according to some reports, one police officer was punched in the face.