Free speech advocates and supporters of Robinson's movement from Melbourne to Berlin came out by the thousands to protest the Friday arrest outside of Leeds Crown Court while Robinson was reporting on a pedophile grooming trial via Facebook livestream. Within six hours of his detention, Robinson was slapped with a 13 month prison term for violating a prior suspended sentence for a similar offense. 

"A big police van with about seven police officers pulled up and arrested [Robinson] and told him to stop live streaming," Robinson's producer told RT (before their article (archived) was scrubbed from the internet). "They said it was incitement and a breach of the peace.

"No peace has been breached – there were two other people there and he's been perfectly quiet talking into his phone. [The police] said nothing about the court proceedings. It's very strange."