Police in Victoria have arrested a pregnant 28-year-old woman in front of her partner and two children for planning an anti-lockdown protest in regional Victoria this weekend. Police arrested the woman, Zoe Buhler, at her home in Miners Rest near Ballarat on Wednesday after she created a “freedom day” event on Facebook calling for people to protest against the Victorian government’s lockdown measures. “As some of you may have seen the government has gone to extreme measures and are using scare tactics through the media to prevent the Melbourne protest,” the now-deleted event description read. The former contestant on the reality TV show Family Food Fight is one of four people charged with incitement over a planned anti-lockdown protest in Ballarat. The group, which had more than 100,000 members, was scrubbed from the social media site on Monday night.

Source: The Guardian September 02, 2020 05:56 UTC