London, UK. 24 October 2016. Protesters at the Home Office with a large placard 'Sex Work is Work' after last Thursday's police raids in Soho and Chinatown call for an end to these raids on premises which they say endanger sex workers, forcing them to leave safe places of work and go onto the streets. Police arrested 18 people, removing 12 on immigration grounds and charging four women and a man with controlling prostitution and took away £35,000. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 24 October 2016. Protesters at the Home Office with a large placard 'Sex Work is Work' after last Thursday's police raids in Soho and Chinatown call for an end to these raids on premises which they say endanger sex workers, forcing them to leave safe places of work and go onto the streets. Police arrested 18 people, removing 12 on immigration grounds and charging four women and a man with controlling prostitution and took away £35,000. The raids targeted flats opposite already gentrified areas, and closure notices were issued allowing insufficient time for them to be challenged in court. Many Soho residents accuse the police of being in collusion with Westminster Council and Soho Estates in land grabs to gentrify the area, removing one of its oldest professions. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
Size: 4000px × 2667px
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: bitch, brothels, chinatown, closure, collective, council, criminalisation, decriminalise, ecp, english, estates, evictions, feminist, feminista, feminists, gentrification, girls, grabs, home, hookers, international, land, masked, masks, mothers, office, open, opera, police, poverty, profiteering, prostitutes, prostitution, protest, puta, queer, queers, raids, rape, rights, safety, sex, soho, strike, suspected, swo, swou, targeting, thai, trafficked, university, westminster, women, work, workers, working
