EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Grandma Arrested by Scotland’s Speech Police
Rose Docherty, 74, from Bishopbriggs, Scotland, was arrested outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow last month. (Martin Shields for The Free Press)
Rose Docherty, 74, was handcuffed and taken into custody last month for violating Britain’s censorship laws. She tells The Free Press: ‘I’m an elderly woman. What are they afraid of?’
Rose Docherty, a 74-year-old grandmother, was put in handcuffs and arrested in Scotland last month.
Her crime?
Standing outside a Glasgow hospital where abortions are performed and holding up a sign that said: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
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