{"id":41109,"date":"2025-07-05T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41109\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:53:12","slug":"more-than-20-arrested-at-protest-metropolitan-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41109\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 arrested at protest, Metropolitan Police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

More than 20 people have been arrested in London after what police said they were responding to a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police said those arrested were being held on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and had been taken into custody. <\/p>\n

Pictures from the Westminster demonstration showed a small group holding placards reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. <\/p>\n

As of Saturday, the group is proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000, after lawyers acting on its behalf failed with a court bid to block the ban on Friday.<\/p>\n

The designation means being a member of, or showing support for Palestine Action, is a criminal offence and could lead to up to 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n

In an earlier statement, the Met said: “Officers are responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n

“The group is now proscribed and expressing support for them is a criminal offence.”<\/p>\n

The government moved to ban the group after an estimated \u00a37m of damage was caused to planes at RAF Brize Norton last month during a protest Palestine Action said it was behind.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe the group last month, calling damage to two military aircraft “disgraceful” and claiming the group had a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage”.<\/p>\n

The group’s ban came into effect on Saturday after High Court judge Mr Justice Chamberlain refused its request to temporarily block the move, saying the claim was “insufficient to outweigh the strong public interest in maintaining the order in force”.<\/p>\n

Raza Husain KC, barrister for Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori, who brought the complaint, told the court banning the group would be “ill-considered” and an “authoritarian abuse” of power.<\/p>\n

Palestine Action has engaged in activities that have predominantly targeted arms companies since the start of the current war in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media More than 20 people have been arrested in London after what police said they were responding…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-41109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114801436588876242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}