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Arrest Statistics
Number of individuals detained by Metropolitan Police at the demonstration.
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Met police make arrests at London Palestine Action protest
More than 90 people have been arrested at the first mass demonstration opposing the proscription of Palestine Action since the group’s ban was ruled unlawful by the high court.Hundreds of people gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square and unveiled signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” Hundreds of demonstrators sat on camping chairs and on the ground as they held up their placards on Saturday afternoon. The Metropolitan police said the ages of those arrested range from 27 to 82.Some of those sitting down holding signs were dressed as the suffragettes and others wore masks bearing the face of Keir Starmer. Mike Higgins, a blind disabled man whose filmed arrests are previous demonstrations have caused outrage, also took part in the action.At the top of the square, near the National Gallery, large banners were displayed reading: “Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth” and “Israel starves kids”.Protesters dressed as suffragettes at the protest in Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockShortly after 1pm, officers began arresting people on the edges of the demonstration. Several individuals were seen being carried off by officers away from the demonstration. One elderly woman using two walking sticks was escorted by an officer away from the protest. One woman told officers as she was being carried away: “You could be on your way catching real criminals.”The Met said as of 2:50pm, it had made 92 arrests. Defend Our Juries, who organised the demonstration, said: “The Met are choosing to make arrests despite the government’s ban on the group being ruled unlawful by the high court, and leading lawyers warning that any arrests would be unlawful.”Qesser Zuhrah, a former Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner who was on hunger strike for 48 days, said the “entire world” is against the ban. The UN human rights chief Volker Türk, has previously condemned the group’s “chilling” proscription.Police officers get ready to arrest protesters in Trafalgar Square during the demonstration. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockZuhrah said: “As former prisoners and hunger strikers, one of the main reasons of today is to defeat the exact purpose of the state for locking us up for 15 months and to make sure that we are never in these streets again. That’s why were here fighting, showing them that despite everything they put us through, we never forsake our cause.She added: “This British government is hellbent on establ...
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