A protester who was filmed being hit by a police officer has compared the experience to being beaten by the Taliban.

Nicola Fisher, 35, of Wakefield Road, Brighton, has accused police of brutality at the G20 summit protests in central London earlier this month.

She made headlines nationwide when footage of her confrontation with the officer was made public and has sold her story through famous celebrity publicist Max Clifford.

In an interview in the Daily Star today she said she was slapped and hit on the leg with a baton.

She said: "I felt like I'd been whipped by the Taliban. I was very tearful and in dreadful pain."

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is reportedly investigating 145 complaints about the policing of the demonstrations, at which newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, 47, died.

Footage was later released of him being hit with a police baton.

The IPCC confirmed today that a police officer has been arrested and questioned on suspicion of manslaughter.