The government outlawed Palestine Action last month under terrorism laws, with membership carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said violence and criminal damage had no place in legitimate protest, and Palestine Action\u2019s activities, including breaking into an RAF base and spraying two aircraft with red paint, justified the ban.<\/p>\n
Palestine Action has increasingly targeted Israel-linked companies in Britain.<\/p>\n
It accuses the government of complicity in Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Derry IPSC (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) said some of its activists had letters hand-delivered from the PSNI on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
That came ahead of a protest in Guildhall Square to \u2018lift the ban on Palestine Action\u2019, where a group of protestors again defied the ban by holding signs that read: \u201cI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.\u201d<\/p>\n
They included at least one of the Bloody Sunday families, while civil rights veteran Eamonn McCann was also in attendance.<\/p>\n
The PSNI said it has \u201cgrounds to suspect they have committed offences contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000\u201d during the \u201cDefend the Right to Protest\u201d protests on July 19 and 26.<\/p>\n
Derry IPSC added: \u201cWe wonder how many such notices have been given to all those carrying UVF flags in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t be intimidated or dissuaded, they cannot arrest us all, we are all Palestine action!<\/p>\n
\u201cThis hand delivered on a Friday night before our protest tomorrow clearly suggests they want to put people off joining us tomorrow, an obvious attempt at intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Protestors defy the ban against support for Palestine Action at the Guildhall in Derry on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s security cabinet backs plans to take over Gaza City<\/p>\n
A letter from the PSNI shows that the accused were invited to respond to an email address to arrange an interview as \u201ca voluntary attendee\u201d.<\/p>\n
It adds: \u201cFailure to make contact with the police to arrange a suitable date for interview, within ten days of receipt of this letter, may result in you being reported to the Public Prosecution Service without the opportunity to provide your account.\u201d<\/p>\n
This follows People Before Profit councillor in Derry, Shaun Harkin, being charged by the Public Prosecution Service for participating in a pro-Palestine protest.<\/p>\n
Shaun informed the PSNI he would not be accepting a PPS caution for participating in a Derry City Centre protest on the 17 February 2024 because he \u201cdid nothing wrong and was prepared to go to court to prove this\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Harkin said: “The people of Gaza are being starved to death and pushed into a Rafah concentration camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery action to stop the Gaza genocide is an act for humanity against barbarism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe PPS and the PSNI should be focused on identifying those in Westminster and Stormont who have incited support for Israel as it carries out war crimes and government bodies providing funding for business organisations to make parts for F-35 murder jets that are being used to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian children.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael’s supporters have lost all legitimacy. They can no longer defend or hide the barbarism they support, so they are trying to silence the mass global movement opposed to genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes as more than 200 people have been arrested in central London at the largest demonstration relating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1817,22305,2194,1144,1814,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-derry-news","9":"tag-garrett-hargan","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-palestine","13":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115001894121318210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}