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He said on the video that both of them were handcuffed. He said he had planned to give a speech at “Speakers’ Corner” in London’s Hyde Park. He said “that was my crime.”

Pettibone said that she was denied entry because she had plans to interview far-right leader Tommy Robinson.

She said from Austria that “It felt like they were saying, ‘you’re right-wing, that’s not allowed.”‘

They just locked me out and said "au revoir"... Officially banned from UK for "racism".. doing fine though, all the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… —

Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) March 12, 2018

Southern, who has more than 400,000 subscribers on YouTube, tweeted that she was “officially banned from UK for ‘racism”‘ but was doing fine.

She said “all the cool people are being banned anyway.”