Palestine Action protest arrests rise to more than 500
The ban on the banned group in London to support the Palestinian action rose to 532 in London.
The Metropolitan Police said that the majority of the arrests – 521 – Westminster Parliamentary Square and the Palestinian action in a Palestinian Coalition March were to exhibit banners supporting Palestinian action.
Six arrests to attack police officers, two to violate the conditions of the law of public order, one officer and the other for a racial aggravated public order crime.
The government has made a criminal offense that could be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison since the ban on the group in July, under the law of terrorism.
. He said before The number of arrests is the largest in one day in the last 10 years.
On Sunday, the metropolitan police said that the average age of those who were arrested was 54 and most of the arrests – 147 of them are among the people between the ages of 60 and 69.
He said that the counter -terror team is currently trying to accuse those accused of supporting the Palestinian action.
The force said: “For the coming days and weeks, civil servants from the counter terrorism command of the counter will try to bring together the case files required to guarantee the accusations against those arrested as part of this operation.”
Protesters, whose details can be confirmed at the temporary prisoner processing points, were released on guarantee to appear at a police station at a future history, provided that they did not participate in future demonstrations on the Palestinian action.
However, 212 protesters, who refused to give their details or who had already been arrested on bail, were detained.
The police said that 18:00 dated 18.00, 18 in custody, but is expected to be released throughout the day.
Security expert Lizzie Dearden said that the laws in which the protesters were arrested to the BBC were not designed for a group of this nature or a group of this size.
“When [the Terrorism Act] It was prepared at the end of the nineties.
“So the law is fully implemented in a completely new way.”
Interior Minister Yette Cooper thanked the police for their response to the demonstration and said that the prohibition of the Palestinian action was based on “strong security advice following the serious attacks of the group” and “plans and ideas for more attacks”.
“Many people may not yet know the reality of this organization, but the assessments are very clear – this is not an unconnected organization,” he said.
However, Charity Amnesty International’s General Manager Sacha Deshmukh described mass arrests as “deeply concerned”.
He said: “We criticized the British law of terrorism for a long time that it has been expressed in an extremely broad and uncertain and uncertain threat to freedom of expression. These arrests show that our concerns are right.”
