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Protesters meet in the British capital for the second consecutive week to support the recently prohibited activism group.
United Kingdom police arrested dozens of people during a demonstration in London calling for the prohibition of the campaign group Action of Palestine be lifted.
The demonstration in place of the London Parliament on Saturday was the last demonstration against the repression of the United Kingdom against the activism of Palestinian rights.
“The agents carried out 41 arrests for showing support for an organization prohibited. A person was arrested for common assault,” London metropolitan police said in a statement.
The arrests followed last Saturday in detention of 29 people, including a priest and some health professionals, who had gathered in the Place du Parliament after a last millet legal offer To prevent the group from being prohibited under “anti -terrorismThe legislation failed.
The ban, which released parliament in early July, was adopted after militants burst into a military base last month and sprayed red painting on two planes to protest against the support of the United Kingdom to the War of Israel against Gaza, that the main rights defense groups have described As a genocide.
This decision feared freedom of expression in the country, putting action in Palestine equally with armed groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) in the United Kingdom, which makes it a criminal offense to support or be part of the protest group, liable to a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
The demonstrators of this week’s demonstration had gathered near a statue of the former South African president Nelson Mandela outside the British Parliament, silently brandishing signs saying: “I oppose the genocide. I support the action of Palestine ”.
The last of the demonstrators was withdrawn from the statue of Nelson Mandela shortly after 2:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. GMT).
The campaign group defends our juries, which announced that it organized rallies in several British cities, called the “Orwellian” ban – a reference to the late English writer George Orwell, who wrote on totalitarianism and social injustice.
“Who does the police think he is in this area?” challenged a spokesperson.
Defend our juries published on X that the police also carried out other demonstrations in support of the action in Palestine in Manchester, Cardiff and Northern Ireland. The police have not yet confirmed the alleged arrests.
Launched in July 2020, Palestine Action said that it uses “disruptive tactics” to target “business catalysts” and companies involved in the manufacture of weapons for Israel, such as Elbit based in Israel and French multinational thales.
Even before the start of the war against Gaza, rights defense groups and UN experts accused Israel of imposing a Apartheid system against the Palestinians.
The British government accused the group of having caused millions of pounds of damage thanks to its actions.
Opponents of the prohibition say that the use of the “anti-terrorism” law is inappropriate against a group focused on civil disobedience.
