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Russell Brand claims 62,199 UK arrests over online speech in five years
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"In my country, the United Kingdom, 62,199 people have been arrested for things they have said online in the last 5 years. So the concerns of that man that people are protecting their identity precisely because they know they're in a operating within a draconian system are it would seem legitimate."
Russell Brand claims that 62,199 people in the UK have been arrested over things said online in the past five years. He offers the figure while arguing that some protesters cover their faces because they fear identification in what he calls a draconian system, but provides no source in the excerpt.
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