Police today have arrested three people allegedly participating in a lockdown protest in Christchurch and two others in the Far North accused of refusing to wear a mask in public. Those arrested in Christchurch include a 56-year-old woman and two men, aged 50 and 46. Everyone in the group was first encouraged to comply with alert level restrictions before police resorted to making arrests, Coster said. Just 30 minutes earlier today, a woman, 23, and a man, 44, were arrested at a Kaitaia Pak'nSave, in the North Island. Police said the pair were acting "in a disorderly manner toward supermarket staff and other members of the public".

Source: Otago Daily Times August 19, 2021 06:33 UTC