In a faraway reality, the forceful obligation to hide religious symbols seemed a thing of distant, authoritarian, communist regimes. Yet this totalitarianism has so rapidly creeped into our Western democratic societies, that we are no longer so ‘free’ as perhaps we thought we once were.

Just last month, a group of Police officers of the Montreal Police Department (Service de Police de la ville de Montréal) were threatened and forced to stop wearing a religious symbol whilst on duty. 

CitizenGO’s Campaign Director for the UK and Ireland, Caroline Farrow, was arrested this week under false, unfounded and unwarranted accusations. 

Caroline, a mother of five children, was preparing dinner on the evening of October 3rd when two policemen knocked on her door, claiming that there had been “allegations of harassment and malicious posts.” They eventually stormed their way into the house with NO warrant and arrested Caroline in front of her husband and children.