Mounted police officers are deployed during a protest by Abolish Asylum System and counter demonstrators at Castle Park in Bristol (Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
They also shouted about ‘saving women and children’.
But counter-protesters were also at the scene,and shouted: ‘No hate,no fear,refugees are welcome here!’
Refugee Ariya is a teenage victim of torture who made a treacherous journey to the UK by boat after fleeing the dictatorship in Iran.
At a protest earlier this month,the 18-year-old said: ‘We all feel good about the counter protest,but we are also stressed because we don’t know what is going to happen.
Demonstrators gather during an anti-immigration protest outside the New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
People demonstrating at an Abolish Asylum System protest outside the Radisson Hotel in Perth (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)
‘I have come from Iran. I had to leave because I was tortured. I got into trouble with the authorities for changing my religion.
‘The journey here was very hard. I would not be here if I did not have to be.’
In Horley,one protester shouted ‘you’re all scum and you should be ashamed’ after he was accused of racism from a pro-migration group.
Lines of police have been forced to separate the two groups. Stand Up to Racism protesters chanted ‘no hate,refugees are welcome here’ which were met with ‘no they’re f****** not’ from the other side of the street.
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