Hundreds of detainees. The British police warns against Palestine Action

At least 200 people were detained on Saturday at the Square Parliament in London during the Propalestine demonstration – Metropolitan Police said on platform X. The services warned that anyone who would support the banned Palestine Action group would be detained.

According to the Organization of Defend Our Juries, which prepared the protest, about 700 people took part in the event. Over 100 of them simultaneously revealed banners with a handwritten inscription: “I oppose the genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

The group announced that among the detainees there were, among others Former Guantanamo Bay Mazzam Begg prisoner, employees of British health protection, Kwakrzy and a blind person in a wheelchair.

The police wrote on a social networking site that among the demonstrators “a significant number of people (…) carrying banners expressing support for Palestine Action, which is a forbidden group,” was noticed. “We made 200 detention on Parliament Square this afternoon,” said the services, adding that four people were detained for assaulting police officers.

In July, the British government, under the Terrorism Act of 2000, banned the activities of the Palestine Action Group, considering a crime belonging to it or supporting it, for which there is a penalty of up to 14 years in prison.

Despite this, protests were still organized. Over 200 people were detained during them. Three of them, two 70-year-olds and one 50-year-old, were accused of supporting an outlawed group. They will stand before the Westminster District Court on September 16.

At the same time, when there was a demonstration to Parliament Square, a march organized by the Palestinian coalition passed through the streets of London. The metropolitan police reported that one person was arrested for showing a banner supporting Palestine Action.

MPs voted in favor of the group's outlawing after the activists broke into the Raf Brize Norton base in June and destroyed two Voyager aircraft, pouring them with red paint. Damage was estimated at 7 million pounds. Palestine Action then took responsibility for this incident.

From London Marta Zabłocka (PAP)

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