Women protesting against male violence at Suffragette premiere were dragged away by male security guards

A group of feminist activists jumped the barriers at the premiere of the Suffragette film in Leicester Square on Wednesday night to protest against domestic violence towards women.

As the group from Sisters Uncut lay on the red carpet, where actors including Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter were speaking to reporters, they were accosted by security.

In one video of the incident, the group can be seen chanting "dead women can’t vote, David Cameron take note" while several male security guards appear to aggressively drag them off the red carpet.

The group's stunt was aimed at drawing attention to domestic violence and cuts to women’s services.

One protester, who did not give her name, told The Independent:

We aren't going to move, we're the modern suffragettes and domestic violence cuts are demonstrating that little has changed for us 97 years later.

After initially attempting to remove the group, security guards later placed barriers around them to allow those on the red carpet to keep moving.

Suffragette tells the story of the women's rights movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is due to be released in cinemas on 12th October.

But as a post on the Sisters Uncut Facebook page explained: "The film depicts a struggle for women's rights that took place nearly 100 years ago, but we know that the struggle isn't over."

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