{"id":888211,"date":"2026-04-12T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:55:33","slug":"more-than-200-arrested-at-london-protest-backing-banned-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888211\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 arrested at London protest backing banned group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police arrested more than 200 people on Saturday during a protest against a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-palestine-action-high-court-2fbb7f5e2e090881193b9328323d2ec4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ban on the group Palestine Action<\/a> that the government has labeled a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police said they had detained 212 protesters between the ages of 27 and 82 for supporting the group.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s High Court ruled in February that the government\u2019s decision to <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-palestine-action-protest-arrests-b6acca3f6e46cf0fd64ae11d413f5bd8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outlaw the protest group<\/a> as a terrorist organization was unlawful, but it kept the ban in place while the government appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Police had warned in advance of the protest organized by the group Defend Our Juries that it would make arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds gathered in Trafalgar Square to show their support for the group, with some holding signs reading, \u201cI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musician Robert Del Naja of the trip hop group Massive Attack said he held a sign in support of the group despite the possibility that an arrest could jeopardize his ability to travel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought this is ridiculous and then the police making that U-turn to arrest people again, I thought that is even more ridiculous,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m going to hold a sign today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protesters yelled \u201cshame on you\u201d at police carrying away protesters and mocked them for arresting the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, she looks like a terrorist, doesn\u2019t she mate?\u201d a woman yelled as police led a protester with a walking stick to a police van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police arrested more than 200 people on Saturday during a protest against a ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,30,188,393,4179,4884,2003,257,13216,8547,236905,13466,16,15,263],"class_list":["post-888211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-general-news","tag-great-britain","tag-law-enforcement","tag-london","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-religion","tag-robert-del-naja","tag-terrorism","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116389722566568722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888211","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=888211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}