Riot police clashed with demonstrators outside New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday, using pepper spray and making dozens of arrests as they moved to end a long-running protest against coronavirus restrictions.

A pre-planned operation to further restore access around the Parliamentary precinct has gained significant ground, with a number of vehicles and structures removed from the area this morning.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand >> Wearing riot gear and using pepper spray, New Zealand police on Wednesday moved in on the hundreds of protesters who have been camped outside the nation’s Parliament for more than three weeks.

WELLINGTON, March 2 — Riot police clashed with demonstrators outside New Zealand’s parliament today, using pepper spray and making dozens of arrests as they moved to end a long-running protest against coronavirus restrictions. Hundreds of officers took to Wellington’s streets before dawn to...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Wearing riot gear and using pepper spray, New Zealand police today moved in on the hundreds of protesters who have been camped outside the nation’s Parliament for more than t

Police officers have began a dispersal operation on the anti-vax protesters that have been camped outside New Zealand's Parliament House since early February.

Riot police clashed with anti-vaccination demonstrators outside New Zealand's parliament in Wellington on Wednesday, using pepper spray and making dozens of arrests as they moved to end a long-running protest. Hundreds of police took to the streets of the capital before dawn in a bid to clear a camp that…

WELLINGTON (March 2): Riot police clashed with demonstrators outside New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday, using pepper spray and making dozens of arrests as they moved to end a long-running protest against coronavirus restrictions. Hundreds of officers took to Wellington's streets before dawn to clear roads around parliament that have been clogged by protesters' vehicles for more than three weeks. Ending a previous

Hundreds of officers took to Wellington's streets before dawn to clear roads around parliament that have been clogged by protesters' vehicles for more than three weeks.

Report from RNZ Riot police this afternoon started pushing into the area of protest inside the grounds of Parliament, clearing tents around the bottom of the Parliamentary Library lawn. Loudspeaker messages continually told protestors that Parliament grounds are closed and people will be trespassed.

In the early hours of this morning, before the sun had risen, police geared up for an operation to "restore order" to the streets of Wellington, 23 days into an anti-Covid protest on Parliament grounds.

New Zealand police moved in on Wednesday to end an anti-vaccine mandate protest that has disrupted the country's capital for the past three weeks, towing away cars and dismantling tents set up outside parliament.