The Class War parliamentary candidiate for Chingford and Woodford Green was arrested during a demonstration.

Lisa McKenzie, a fellow at the London School of Economics, was held on Thursday evening as she protested against seperate entrances for those living in private homes and social housing in the same development, known as 'poor doors'. 

Police have confirmed the 47-year-old was arrrested on suspicion of criminal damage on March 17. 

The mother-of-one has been bailed until a date in late April. 

Responding to her arrest, Ms McKenzie told the Guardian: "I had been in Chingford and Woodford Green on the day of the arrest.

"I went to the protest in the evening when an officer said he wanted to talk to me. He told me I was being arrested for criminal damage.

"I allegedly put a sticker on a window and as a result that window had be cleaned.

"I was holding up a piece of paper next to the window as seen in the BBC's coverage, not a sticker.

"This is an attempt to silence me, to stop me protesting and to stop me talking about social apartheid and the democratic process."

A Class War spokesman, said: "She is a political prisoner. I cannot remember when a parliamentary candidate of any party has been treated in this way.

"This is political policing at its worse and evidence that the government is using the police to subvert the election.

"Lisa is accused of putting up a sticker and she's thrown in a cell. It tells you a lot about the corruption of the ruling class and whose side the police are on."