{"id":16228,"date":"2025-08-09T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16228"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:04:03","slug":"uk-police-arrest-200-at-protest-supporting-banned-palestine-action-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16228","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest 200 at protest supporting banned Palestine Action group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>London police arrest 200\u00a0at protest supporting banned Palestine Action group Metropolitan police detain dozens over rally backing pro-Palestinian activists<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police said Saturday officers had arrested at least 150 people for supporting Palestine Action at a protest backing the group banned last month under anti-terror laws.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Israel kills the &#8216;Palestinian Pele&#8217; Suleiman al-Obeid<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve now arrested 150 people in Parliament Square,&#8221; the force said in a post on X, adding &#8220;there are still people holding placards supporting Palestine Action&#8221; and that &#8220;officers are steadily working through the crowd making further arrests&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters, some wearing black and white Palestinian scarves, chanted &#8220;shame on you&#8221; and &#8220;hands off Gaza&#8221;, and held signs such as &#8220;I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action&#8221;, video taken by Reuters at the scene showed.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: Pakistan condemns Israel&#8217;s Gaza plan<\/p>\n<p>In July, British lawmakers banned Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation after some of its members broke into a Royal Air Force base and damaged planes in protest against Britain&#8217;s support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The ban makes it a crime to be a member of the group, carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, last week won a bid to bring a legal challenge against the ban.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London police arrest 200\u00a0at protest supporting banned Palestine Action group Metropolitan police detain dozens over rally backing pro-Palestinian activists London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police said Saturday officers had arrested at least 150 people for supporting Palestine Action at a protest backing the group banned last month under anti-terror laws. Read More: Israel kills the &#8216;Palestinian Pele&#8217; Suleiman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}