POLICE have swooped on a Palestine Motion protest and are arresting demonstrators after the group was labelled a terror organisation.
The Met Police stated they’ve arrested over 100 folks on the Palestine Coalition march in London‘s Parliament Sq. at present.
LNPProtesters are arrested by cops in Parliament Sq. for holding placards in help of the banned Palestine Motion group[/caption]
PAA lady is led away by cops as supporters of Palestine Motion participate in a mass motion in Parliament Sq., Westminster[/caption]
Shutterstock EditorialSupporters of proscribed Palestine Motion be part of a protest in Parliament Sq., Westminster at present[/caption]
Peter MacdiarmidMany sat on the grass holding selfmade indicators[/caption]
Clusters of officers might be seen holding folks sat on the sting of the grass and escorting them via crowds to police vans.
Cops swooped in and “are making arrests”, having thus far detained greater than 150 in a mass crackdown.
Organisers Defend Our Juries stated as much as 700 folks have been on the occasion in Parliament Sq., with police making ready for the “largest mass arrest of their historical past”.
Laws to proscribe Palestine Motion got here into pressure on July 5 – making it a felony offence to indicate help for the group – carrying a jail sentence of as much as 14 years.
And over 200 folks have been arrested in a wave of Defend Our Juries demonstrations because it was banned.
Right this moment’s protest comes solely days after the primary three folks to be charged with supporting the group have been publicly named as Jeremy Shippam, 71, Judit Murray, additionally 71, and Fiona Maclean, 53.
The Met Police posted on X this afternoon: “Arrest replace: We’ve now arrested 150 folks in Parliament Sq..
“Whereas lots of these remaining within the Sq. are media and onlookers, there are nonetheless folks holding placards supporting Palestine Motion.
“Officers are steadily working via the gang making additional arrests.”
A person, who seemed to be in his 50s, was arrested after he entered a big group of police holding a selfmade signal studying “I help Palestine Motion”.
He was marched away by a gaggle of 9 cops.
Folks waving Palestinian flags and indicators studying “cease the genocide” continued to collect in the principle sq. regardless of the chance of arrest.
One other pair of protesters holding handwritten pro-Palestine Motion banners sat on the statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
They have been later arrested and carried away by cops. As they have been carried away the gang shouted “disgrace on you”.
Three retired medical doctors in scrubs lay and sat holding indicators in help of the controversial group – police surrounded them and arrested a girl, carrying her away via the gang.
One other was later carried away, with officers having to struggle via an offended crowd.
The Parliament Sq. protest is organised by Defend Our Juries, the place “individuals are anticipated to deliberately break the regulation by holding up placards expressing help for the proscribed group Palestine Motion”, cops stated.
GettyLaw enforcement officials take away protesters throughout the professional Palestine “Raise The Ban” protest[/caption]
ReutersLaw enforcement officials detain a demonstrator throughout a rally organised by Defend Our Juries, difficult the federal government’s proscription of Palestine Motion below anti-terrorism legal guidelines, in Parliament Sq.[/caption]
Shutterstock EditorialSupporters of proscribed Palestine Motion be part of a protest in Parliament Sq., Westminster at present[/caption]
Earlier such protests have seen greater than 100 arrests made in whole.
Bianca Jagger, former spouse of Mick Jagger, human rights defender, stated: “I’m right here at present as a result of I’m involved the UK authorities is in violation of our elementary freedom of speech.
“However I additionally hear at present, in fact, to denounce genocide that has been perpetrated by Israel and Gaza.”
She slammed the proscribing of Palestine Motion as “outrageous”.
In the meantime, the Russell Sq. demonstration is made up of the Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign, Cease the Struggle and different teams.
One individual was arrested “for a placard displaying help for Palestine Motion” on this protest, the pressure stated.
Posting on X, the police stated: “That is the scene in Parliament Sq..
“Inside this crowd a major variety of persons are displaying placards expressing help for Palestine Motion, which is a proscribed group.
“Officers have moved in and are making arrests.
“The Palestine Coalition march (a separate protest) has set off from Russell Sq. heading to Whitehall through Aldwych and the Strand.
“To date there was one arrest at that occasion – for a placard displaying help for Palestine Motion.”
A Residence Workplace spokesperson stated in a earlier assertion: “The Residence Secretary has been clear that the proscription of Palestine Motion isn’t about Palestine, nor does it have an effect on the liberty to protest on Palestinian rights.
“It solely applies to the precise and slim organisation whose actions don’t mirror or symbolize the hundreds of individuals throughout the nation who proceed to train their elementary rights to protest on totally different points.”
AFPVarious arrests have been made as protests happen in London[/caption]
AFPA protester is carried away by cops at a “Raise The Ban” demonstration[/caption]
EPASupporters of Palestine Motion attend a mass protest organised by Defend Our Juries group as a part of their marketing campaign to finish the proscription of Palestine Motion[/caption]
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