Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows | UK news

According to the police figures, half of those arrested for the Palestinian action in London during the protest were 60 years and older.

A total of 532 people have been arrested in the biggest demonstration of the group since it was banned last month. Except 10, all were in the 13th part of the Terrorism Law to exhibit supportive banners or signs.

One age fault published by the Metropolitan Police on Sunday revealed that approximately 100 of the detainees were in the 70s and 15 in the 80s. 49.9% of the 519 people, who had birth dates, were 60 years and over.

Hundreds of people, participants, “I oppose the genocide. I support the Palestinian action.”

Among those arrested, 75 -year -old Sir Jonathon Porritt, a former government adviser who has long been consequently concerned about the erosion of civil freedoms, was also a 75 -year -old Sir Jonathon Porritt. He described the prohibition of the Palestinian action as ölüm a measure of the helplessness of the government ”and“ completely inappropriate ”.

I thought it was over -access by the Minister of Interior, trying to eliminate the voices of those who were arrested on bail until 13 and 23 October and deeply worried about what happened in Gaza.

“This was the most understandable government itself for what continues to be an absolute horror story in the world.

“What we see in Gaza right now has shocked people completely and it is completely disgusting that we live through a genocide on our TV screens.”

Porritt said he had no complaints about how he was treated and defined the officers as respectful. However, some claimed that old people arrested were rejected access to water and expecting to be processed in the sun for a long time.

When asked Met, Guardian told Guardian that he had taken precautions due to the age of care before the operation on Saturday and the age of those arrested in the previous protests. However, he added that the decision to emerge is a problem of “personal responsibility”.

“At the prisoner processing points and access to the toilets. As part of the policing operation, we had police medical officers and we worked as quickly as possible to ensure that no one expects an unreasonable time,” he said. “Regardless of this, those who chose to come and chew the law are required to some extent personal responsibility. They knew that the possibility of arrest was probably a decision that would have consequences.”

The arrested is the 75 -year -old former British army officer and the colonel (retired) Chris Romberg and the son of the victim of Holocaust, a military attaché in the British army officer and the British embassies in Egypt and Jordan. Like Porritt, he was arrested under the 13th chapter and with bail.

He said: “This is a serious attack for our freedoms.

“When I protested against the US War in Vietnam, we were able to cheer the ‘victory to NLF’ without being criminalized.

He had no complaints about police treatment.

Alice Oswald, a 58 -year -old award -winning poet, said to The Guardian, who called the police who ignored him about writing about the position they were put in the Position of the Interior Minister.

“Obviously, there were some police officers who really struggled with what they had to do. You could see a slightly variable look on their faces. When the police talked to them in the minibus, he said: ‘Summer Cooper and tell him that he made your life impossible.’ ‘

Oswald, who won the TS Eliot Prize in 2002 and a professor of poetry at Oxford University, said that his participation motivations include a personal experience of regularly teaching online poetry to young people and children in Gaza.

He said he was arrested in accordance with the 12th episode of the Law of Terrorism, which was about inviting support for a banned organization.

532 arrests, the Palestinian Solidarity campaign and a separate march organized by others for a large number of protesters gathered after the allegedly attacked the police officers were detained.

An arrest was for the crime of a civil servant in the execution of his duty, violating the conditions of the law of public order, two of them, and a racial aggravated public order. A total of 18 people were detained on Sunday at 13:00, but it was expected to be released hours later.

In the deterioration of the age of the arrests, Met said that 13 people expected to clarify their birth dates and were not included.

On this basis, the average age of the arrested was 54. A total of 263 of the arrested men, 261 of them were women and eights described themselves as non -duals or did not explain their gender.

Authorities last week, since the prohibition of the Palestinian action, a total of 10 people were accused of suspected crimes within the scope of the Law of Terrorism.

The Minister of Interior banned the Palestinian action last month after the activists’ estimated 7 million pounds of jets at the Raf Brize Norton Military Base in Oxfordshire.

Cooper followed the prohibition decision based on strong security advice and follows what he described as “planning planning planning planning planning for more attacks ve and has not yet been explained to the public because of the legal procedures that continued to detail.