Five Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters were arrested after the environmental group slow-marched through Whitehall again.
The Metropolitan Police said its officers started making arrests within 30 seconds of being called to the demonstration and the road was reopened within one minute.
One of the people who were arrested includes a man who breached his bail conditions after being taken into custody last week.
He was "not allowed to organise or take part in any procession or static assembly in London".
JSO said 24-year-old Callum Goode "was pulled off the pavement and into a police van for breaking bail imposed after marching against new oil and gas".
In a video posted to social media, he said: "I'm here again. I'm sure that when I step out into the road like last time I will be arrested within a matter of seconds, but it's what I have to do.
"It doesn't matter what the Government tried to do to me. Over the last few weeks, I think this will be my seventh arrest for peacefully marching.
"But I'm just going to keep going out because this is where I need to be. We have to resist against these genocidal policies.
"It's absolutely necessary that we end new oil and gas licences, we can't compromise on this."
⛓️ ARRESTED ON THE WAY TO PROTEST
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) November 24, 2023
🦺 Callum Goode, 24, was pulled off the pavement and into a police van for breaking bail imposed after marching against new oil and gas.
🚔 Courts had previously ordered them not to protest on the road or pavement in Westminster. #PoliceState pic.twitter.com/L134KofuFZ
The environmental organisation said in a statement: "Just Stop Oil supporters are in their fourth week marching to the point of arrest to demand that the UK government immediately halt all future licences and consents for fossil fuel exploration in the UK."
It went on to quote 34-year-old Luke Watson, a handyman from London, who said: "On Monday I was arrested for marching 2 minutes in the road. I’m here again today because I don’t want to be bullied. Protesting, freedom of expression and assembly are basic rights, rights we seem to have lost”
“The UN has just said we’re on track for 3 degrees of warming and an unelected prime minister is going back on the environmental pledges that got his party elected whilst imprisoning young people for complaining about it. Aren’t you glad to live in a civilised liberal democracy?”
Greg Sculthorpe, 38, an accountant from Doncaster, said: “New oil and gas is incompatible with preventing the deaths of millions from heatwaves and crop failures. Our government is prioritising the shortsighted greed of fossil fuel companies over everyone else’s basic rights to life."You have to decide what kind of person you are: someone who stands up to evil or someone who just lets it happen. We aren’t powerless. We could force our government to act responsibly if everyone who is able to, joined in civil resistance to fight for their lives and everything they love.”
There have been 633 arrests of Just Stop Oil supporters since October 30th and there are currently nine Just Stop Oil supporters in prison, according to JSO.
Many of the arrests have taken place under Section Seven of the Public Order Act, which says a protester can be taken in if they "intentionally or recklessly interfere with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure" or "disproportionately interferes with road transport infrastructure".
Officers are supposed to take into account a person's right to protest before taking them into custody.
