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Several dozen people were arrested on Saturday in the United Kingdom. In addition, including 41 in London, after having participated in gatherings of support for the prohibited group Palestine Action, organized for the second week, police and organizers announced.
The group Defend Our Juries. Nevertheless, at the origin of the demonstrations in London and in several other cities in the country, said that 86 people were arrested in five cities.
‘We will not be dissuaded to oppose the genocide. However, nor to defend those who refuse to be spectators,’ said the group in a statement, evoking the war in Gaza.
In London, the police carried out 41 arrests for showing their support for a prohibited organization, ‘said police on X. For example,
Images have shown the police in charge of a small group of demonstrators sporting signs supporting Palestine Action. arrests london supporters palestine action who had gathered at the foot of the Mahatma Gandhi statue, in front of the Parliament.
‘The London police intervened today. arresting more than 40 people on the Place du Parliament for having brandished signs against the genocide and supported Palestine Action’, a spokesman for the group Defend Our Juries told AFP.
‘Who does the police think is serving?’
‘Who does the police think she is serving in this case?’ He added, qualifying the ban on this organization of Orwellian ‘.
The demonstrators had appointed themselves in the early afternoon. In peace, they brandished white signs on which was written: ‘I oppose the genocide. I support Palestine Action, ‘noted AFP journalists.
The Grand Manchester police arrested 16 people while that of Cardiff. the Welsh capital, arrested 13, all for the same offense to the 2000 anti-terrorism law, they said.
‘The South Wales police defend the right of citizens to demonstrate. arrests london supporters palestine action provided they do so in accordance with the law,’ she said.
The other arrests took place in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and Leeds, in northern England, according to Defend Our Juries.
Veterans of the civil rights movement
According to the group. among those arrested are four pastors, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, an engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistant, as well as veterans of the 1960s’ civil rights movement.
Last week. in London, 29 people, including a priest and a number of health professionals, had been arrested for participating in a similar demonstration.
Classified ‘terrorist organization’
The British Parliament approved in early July the ban. the classification as a terrorist organization ‘of the Palestine Action movement in early July, a procedure initiated by the government after an act of vandalism on an air force in England.
Four people were charged with this act and placed in arrests london supporters palestine action pre -trial detention pending a hearing scheduled for July 18.
Emergency seizure. the High Court of London refused to suspend this prohibition which is based on the law of 2000 on terrorism.
Experts from the United Nations have criticized London’s decision. believing that simple material damage, without endangering the life of others, are not serious enough to be qualified as terrorism.
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Arrests london supporters palestine action
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