London police arrest 466 folks for backing banned Palestine Motion group

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Police have arrested 466 folks in central London on Saturday for protesting the British authorities’s choice to ban the pro-Palestinian activist group Palestine Action underneath anti-terrorism legal guidelines.

“As of 9pm, 466 folks had been arrested for exhibiting assist for Palestine Motion,” the Metropolitan Police wrote on X on Saturday.

Eight arrests had been made for different offences, together with 5 for assaults on officers, however police stated none had been significantly injured.

Palestine Motion is a UK-based group which says it goals to disrupt the operations of weapons producers supplying the Israeli authorities.

Final month, UK lawmakers voted to proscribe the group after two Palestine Motion activists broke into Britain’s largest air base in central England in June, damaging two navy plane.

The group’s ban makes it unlawful underneath UK regulation to be a member of – or invite assist for – Palestine Motion and places them on par with terrorist organizations resembling Hamas, al Qaeda and ISIS.

Massive crowds turned up for demonstrations organized by Defend Our Juries on Saturday afternoon at London’s Parliament Sq.. London’s Metropolitan Police had cautioned that it will arrest anybody exhibiting assist for the proscribed group.

One 80-year-old protestor from Surrey, England, who wished to stay nameless, instructed CNN that she attended the protest to point out “what a farce” the federal government’s choice on Palestine Motion was.

She stated organizers had been aiming to have no less than 500 folks sitting peacefully with indicators. “I watched a couple of being carried off by police however there merely weren’t sufficient police to arrest all,” she added.

The demonstration organizers stated on social media that upwards of 1 thousand folks attended the protest, “holding up indicators that learn ‘I oppose Genocide, I assist Palestine Motion’” in a mass show of defiance in opposition to (British House Secretary) Yvette Cooper’s ban.”

The Metropolitan Police acknowledged that roughly 500 to 600 folks had been in attendance when the demonstration started. “Many had been onlookers, media, or folks not holding placards supporting Palestine Motion,” police stated in an earlier assertion.

“We're assured that anybody who got here to Parliament Sq. at this time to carry a placard expressing assist for Palestine Motion was both arrested or is within the technique of being arrested,” Scotland Yard added.

These arrested on the protest had been taken to “prisoner processing factors within the Westminster space, and people whose particulars could possibly be confirmed had been bailed, with situations to not attend any additional protest in assist of Palestine Motion,” police additionally stated.

A CNN workforce on the bottom witnessed scuffles between protestors and police, as demonstrators had been arrested and brought away for supporting Palestine Motion. Onlookers had been heard shouting “disgrace on you” as cops eliminated peaceable protestors from the realm.

British House Secretary Yvette Cooper thanked police for “coping with the very small variety of folks whose actions crossed the road into criminality.”

“The suitable to protest is one we defend fiercely however that is very totally different from displaying assist for this one particular and slim, proscribed organisation,” she stated, in accordance with the UK’s Press Affiliation.

Amnesty Worldwide UK condemned the arrest of peaceable protesters as “a violation of the UK’s worldwide obligations to guard the rights of freedom of expression and meeting,” in a put up on X.

Final week, Palestine Motion’s co-founder Huda Ammori <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F07%2F30%2Fuk%2Fpalestine-action-uk-legal-challenge-intl&data=05%7C02%7CCaitlin.Danaher%40wbdcontractor.com%7Cf54470c534e545c7345008ddd772cef3%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638903610352243489%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lW698XNXsIBEP56D0ARqb3QVPJ6RMcWTImgMvJyC%2B18%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">won a bid to challenge the ban , with a London Excessive Courtroom choose granting permission to hunt a judicial evaluate.