{"id":371483,"date":"2025-08-25T04:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371483\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:48:15","slug":"why-protesters-in-the-uk-are-being-arrested-under-terror-laws-israel-palestine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371483\/","title":{"rendered":"Why protesters in the UK are being arrested under \u2018terror\u2019 laws | Israel-Palestine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why some\u00a0protests in the UK\u00a0are\u00a0being criminalised,\u00a0and what that means for free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, citizens protesting against the war in Gaza are being arrested and detained under \u201cterrorism\u201d laws. Activists and legal experts warn that \u201cpublic safety\u201d is being used as a pretext to silence dissent, curb free speech and criminalise legitimate political activism.<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Stefanie Dekker<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<br \/>Clare Hinchcliffe \u2013 mother of imprisoned activist<br \/>Laura O\u2019Brien \u2013 head of protest team<br \/>Matt Kennard \u2013 investigative journalist and author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why some\u00a0protests in the UK\u00a0are\u00a0being criminalised,\u00a0and what that means for free speech.\u00a0 In Britain, citizens protesting against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,943,393,299,36,1824,4884,835,42522,1167,7424,1477,1144,40890,2579,712,10471,10472,16,15,49,286,1764],"class_list":["post-371483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-great-britain","tag-hamas","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-netherlands","tag-northern-ireland","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-protests","tag-scotland","tag-show-types","tag-tv-shows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087599480616130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371483","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=371483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}