An activist whose case had prompted concern by the US state department over “freedom of expression” in the UK has been convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic.
Livia Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner, had gone on trial at Poole magistrates court last month accused of breaching a public spaces protection order on two days in March 2023 near to a clinic in Bournemouth.
A delegation from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, an office within the US Department of State, met her last month during a visit to the UK, along with a US-backed anti-abortion group, which has been supporting her case.