Greater than 25 protesters have been detained by police a day after the activist group was banned within the UK.
Police have arrested protesters in London for supporting activist group Palestine Action, which was banned at midnight in the UK.
“Officers have arrested greater than 20 folks on suspicion of offences beneath the Terrorism Act 2000. They’ve been taken into custody. Palestine Motion is a proscribed group and officers will act the place felony offences are dedicated,” the Metropolitan Police wrote on X on Saturday.
Marketing campaign group Defend Our Juries mentioned in a press launch that 27 folks, together with a priest and quite a few well being professionals, had been arrested for offences beneath the Terrorism Act.
They have been holding cardboard indicators, saying: “I oppose genocide. I help Palestine Motion.”
Passersby reacted to the arrests because the police intervened within the demonstration at midday.
“Met Police, you might be puppets of the Zionist state” and “depart them alone”, they have been quoted as shouting by the Press Affiliation, the British information company.
Different supporters, in a roundabout way concerned within the Palestine Motion protest, shouted: “Who do you defend? Who do you serve?” and “British police off our streets.”
There have been additional chants of “From the river to the ocean, Palestine will probably be free” through the incident.
The ban
Police warned on Friday that expressing help for Palestine Motion could be a felony offence after the ban kicked in at midnight.
“This contains chanting, sporting clothes or displaying articles similar to flags, indicators or logos,” mentioned the drive.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries mentioned: “We commend the Counter Terrorism police for his or her decisive motion in defending the folks of London from some cardboard indicators opposing the genocide in Gaza and expressing help for these taking motion to stop it.”
The proscription cleared parliament on Thursday, with a courtroom problem to attempt to cease it changing into legislation failing on Friday.
The federal government introduced final week it might ban Palestine Motion beneath the Terrorism Act 2000, days after activists from the group broke into an air drive base in southern England.
Two plane on the base have been sprayed with pink paint, inflicting an estimated 7 million kilos ($9.55m) in injury.
4 Palestine Motion activists have been remanded in custody on Thursday after showing in courtroom over the incident.
Palestine Motion has condemned the proscription as an assault on free speech.
The ban will make it a felony offence to belong to or help the group, punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.
