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Police arrest more than 50 protesters supporting banned group Palestine Action

Police have made more than 50 arrests of protesters supporting the banned group Palestine Action.

More than 100 people unveiled signs in solidarity with the terrorist organisation at Westminster’s Parliament Square.


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Police swoop in to arrest protesters supporting the banned group Palestine Action

Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation on July 5, making it a criminal offence to show support for the organisation, carrying a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

The Metropolitan Police issued an arrest update on their soicla media account

It read: “We’ve now made more than 50 arrests in Parliament Square and our interventions continue.

“We have significant resources deployed to this operation. It will take time but we will arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action.”

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More than 100 people unveiled signs in solidarity with the terrorist organisation at Westminster’s Parliament Square

It comes after the London-based police force tweeted a picture of crowds on Saturday afternoon.

The force wrote: “This is the scene in Parliament Square.

“Within this crowd a significant number of people are displaying placards expressing support for Palestine Action, which is a proscribed group. Officers have moved in and are making arrests.”

They said a “significant number of people are displaying placards expressing support for Palestine Action. Officers have moved in and are making arrests.”

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The group are understood to have created plans to overwhelm the Metropolitan Police Force with large numbers of activists and make the laws unenforceable

In the hours before the protest, the Metropolitan Police had issued a statement confirming: “Anyone showing support for the group can expect to be arrested.”

Footage from the square showed officers moving among the protesters, who were mainly seated on the ground, and speaking to them before escorting them away.

The group Defend Our Juries announced the protest would go ahead earlier this week despite the ban.

A Home Office spokesperson said in a previous statement: “The Home Secretary has been clear that the proscription of Palestine Action is not about Palestine, nor does it affect the freedom to protest on Palestinian rights. It only applies to the specific and narrow organisation whose activities do not reflect or represent the thousands of people across the country who continue to exercise their fundamental rights to protest on different issues.”

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