MPs push for change on Palestine Action but minister stands firm
Some MPs pressure on the government to combat the prohibition of the Palestinian action after a weekend of mass arrests.
In July, 890 arrests were arrested by the British government in a demonstration in London on Saturday against the group ban, which was banned within the scope of the Anti -Terror Legislation.
Scale of arrests – at a level that has not been seen in the 1990s since the questionnaire tax rebellions – and the deflection of the police from other fields was criticized by MPs, including labor.
Security Minister Dan Jarvis said that there were 17 arrests to attack customers to police officers, because the experts behind the ban on the prohibition insisted that they act independently from the government.
Walthamstow Labor Party Deputy Stella Creasy brought the issue to parliament as an emergency question and faced the risk of losing the seriousness of terrorism and diluting instead of strengthening. “
“The expression had to be related to direct damage and violence.” He said.
He continued: “Going after someone with a poster, testing the limits of freedom, many of them do not support Palestinian action, but they feel strong about Palestinian rights or free speech, instead of clarifying the intention of the government confuses.”
However, Jarvis provided that the group was not a “legitimate protest group”, but according to the expert assessment, it was a company with terrorist connections to be banned.
He said: “Anyone who wants to show about the actions of any government, including ourselves, has absolute freedom in gathering and voice in the voice of anyone who wants to show the actions of any government, including ourselves.”
“But it is not the same to support Palestine and to support a banned terrorist organization.”
“The vital issue of Palestinian rights should not be selected by an organization that shows that it is willing to use violence in the pursuit of its case.”
He compared his arrests with the Palestinian Solidarity campaign show in the center of London, where 20,000 people walked peacefully on the same day.
Liberal Democratic Spokesman Lisa Smart said that mass arrests have identified a “dangerous precedent”, which is deeply worried, and violence, anti -Semitic abuse or hate speech crimes are already covered by the current law.
He urgently urgently urgently involved the right to protest the right to protest against the terror legislation, “especially proportional to the legislation of terrorism, because it contains the nuance that it needs to clearly needs.”
“I do not agree with this weekend that events have a creepy effect on our democracy,” he replied and added that tens of thousands of people can show “completely reasonable and legal”.
Liverpool Riverside Labor Party deputy Kim Johnson described arrests as “ridiculous” and “authoritarian” and targeted people to “keep the banner in peace”.
Stroud Labour Deputy Dr Simon Opher said that many of the separatist components were arrested under the legislation he described as “a sledgehammer to break a hazelnut”.
Sheffield Central’s Labor Party deputy Abtisam Mohamed said that his founders were among those arrested and wanted to overthrow the ban.
“The Law of Terrorism, posters, retired grandmother and NHS advisors were not arrested for keeping posters.”
Jarvis insisted that the government’s actions were “necessary and proportional” and adding some supporters of the banned group “does not fully understand the activities of the organization”.
Former workers’ leader Jeremy Corbyn, who said that he was against the “weight of history” law and called Jarvis “not to ban peaceful protests”.
On the other hand, Corbyn said that the minister was a “insidious suspicion” and said, “This government did nothing to do it and its colleagues.” He said.
Labor Deputy Markus Campbell-Gevreliler claimed that the arrests of people holding posters without a clear proof of a group’s intention to encourage their extreme actions were “extremely rare” and asked the police to stop making these arrests.
Jarvis praised the police for his actions and said that “proportionality” was an important issue.
However, he added: “We will not tolerate an organization that we see in recent days and weeks, for example, an organization motivated by an organization motivated by Islamist extremism or extreme right -wing ideology, and we cannot tolerate this activity from the Palestinian action.”
Conservative Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp supported the government’s ban on the Palestinian action and said that they used a sledgehammer to attack a police officer and use “deliberate sabotte shelf planes”.
“We do not do things in this country,” he said. He continued: “We solve things through discussion and solve things through the election.”
