Greater than 25 protesters have been detained by police a day after the activist group was banned within the UK.
Police have arrested protesters in London for supporting activist group Palestine Motion, which was banned at midnight in the UK.
“Officers have arrested greater than 20 folks on suspicion of offences beneath the Terrorism Act 2000. They’ve been taken into custody. Palestine Motion is a proscribed group and officers will act the place prison offences are dedicated,” the Metropolitan Police wrote on X on Saturday.
Marketing campaign group Defend Our Juries mentioned in a press launch that 27 folks, together with a priest and a lot of well being professionals, had been arrested for offences beneath the Terrorism Act.
They had been holding cardboard indicators, saying: “I oppose genocide. I help Palestine Motion.”
Passersby reacted to the arrests because the police intervened within the demonstration at midday.
“Met Police, you might be puppets of the Zionist state” and “go away them alone”, they had been quoted as shouting by the Press Affiliation, the British information company.
Different supporters, circuitously concerned within the Palestine Motion protest, shouted: “Who do you defend? Who do you serve?” and “British police off our streets.”
There have been additional chants of “From the river to the ocean, Palestine might be free” in the course of the incident.
The ban
Police warned on Friday that expressing help for Palestine Motion could be a prison offence after the ban kicked in at midnight.
“This contains chanting, carrying clothes or displaying articles corresponding to flags, indicators or logos,” mentioned the power.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries mentioned: “We commend the Counter Terrorism police for his or her decisive motion in defending the folks of London from some cardboard indicators opposing the genocide in Gaza and expressing help for these taking motion to forestall it.”
The proscription cleared parliament on Thursday, with a court docket problem to attempt to cease it turning into legislation failing on Friday.
The federal government introduced final week it might ban Palestine Motion beneath the Terrorism Act 2000, days after activists from the group broke into an air power base in southern England.
Two plane on the base had been sprayed with crimson paint, inflicting an estimated 7 million kilos ($9.55m) in injury.
4 Palestine Motion activists had been remanded in custody on Thursday after showing in court docket over the incident.
Palestine Motion has condemned the proscription as an assault on free speech.
The ban will make it a prison offence to belong to or help the group, punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.
