Protester arrested for wearing ‘Plasticine Action’ shirt to Westminster rally
A protester was arrested on a mass meeting day in Parliament Square in London for wearing a T -shirt with the words “plastic action”.
Miles Pickering from Brighton admitted that the T -shirt was designed to be similar to the logo of the Palestinian action, and the activists were banned last month after entering the Raf Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spraying red paint with red paint.
The Law of Terrorism 2000 makes it illegal to wear anything that supports a banned organization.
However, in Mr. Pickering’s T -shirt, it was an image of plastic character morphine in the letter “O, and read the text under the logo: uz We opposed the animation produced by AI”.
On August 9, 532 other demonstrators were arrested at the pro -Palestinian rally in Westminster.
Mr. Pickering, an engineer, Guardian He looked at the top of an officer and said, “Right, you’re notched,” he said before he took him to the Scotland’s garden.
“How stupid he was laughing that I was arrested for being a plastic terrorist,” he said.
He asked the arrest officer of a senior officer who would arrest Mr. Pickering in accordance with the episode 12, which could bring more serious accusations to support a banned group.
“[The arresting officer] He said: ‘No, I can’t.’ And they said: ‘Why not?’ He said: ‘Because he did not write Palestinian action on him. There is a plastic action written on it. ‘”
Five minutes later, the arrest officer told him: “I have good news and I have bad news.” “Good news” was that he triggered Mr. Pickering.
“And I said: ‘What is bad news?’ He said: ‘It will be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked freely, all the real heroes are really arrested people ..
Mr. Pickering sells copies of the T -shirt to collect money for the medical assistance for the Palestinians.
“This works a little, right?” he said. “It is as if we will make fun of your absurd decision to prohibit a protest group. It is very important that our rights to protest do not decrease.”
The Metropolitan Police Spokesman said: “On Saturday, August 9, after 14:00, officers in Parliament Square arrested a man on suspicion of a crime under the 12th episode of the 2000 Law of Terrorism.
“When he was arrested, the man was wearing a scarf that partially hiding the slogan in his T -shirt, which the officers believed to have read the Palestinian action.
“When the officers noticed that the T -shirt read plastic action, he was taken to one of the nearby prisoner processing points, where he was arrested and free to leave.”
