{"id":118715,"date":"2025-09-06T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118715\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:57:08","slug":"arrests-made-at-protest-for-palestine-action-in-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118715\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made at protest for Palestine Action in London | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arrests have been made at the latest protest for Palestine Action in London, the Metropolitan Police say.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators are taking action in Parliament Square in Westminster this afternoon in support of the proscribed terror organisation, as well as in Belfast and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

One man was seen being taken away by police as the crowd in Parliament Square chanted “shame on you” and “you’re supporting genocide”.<\/p>\n

Met Police announced the first arrests of the day on X just 12 minutes after the protest’s official start time.<\/p>\n

Palestine Action has been banned as a terror group since 5 July<\/a> after MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move, making it illegal to express support for the group.<\/p>\n

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In a further update on X, the Met Police said the pro-Palestinian protesters had marched past counter-protesters, and that officers were in place to keep the two groups separated.<\/p>\n

The march reached Whitehall at around 2pm, where speeches are taking place. The police have said the demonstration “must” conclude by 5.30pm.<\/p>\n

Met Police warned before the protest began: “Expressing support for a proscribed organisation is a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n

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“Where our officers see offences, we will make arrests.”<\/p>\n

The protests’ organiser, Defend Our Juries, said it expected at least 1,000 people to take part this weekend, encouraging them to hold signs saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.<\/p>\n

More than 530 people were arrested<\/a> at the last major demonstration against Palestine Action being banned as a terror group. However, Met Police used “street bail” to avoid having to process them all in custody.<\/p>\n

Street bail allows officers to release suspects on bail before they are taken to a police station. The suspect receives a bail notice requiring them to return to a station at a future date instead.<\/p>\n

The organisers encouraged protesters not to accept street bail during today’s demonstrations, writing in a briefing document before they started: “It will not be practically possible for the police to arrest 1,000 non-compliant people on the same day, and that is the strategic rationale behind non-compliance. It increases pressure on the state.”<\/p>\n

In a reference to the advice in the briefing document, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson told Sky News the move would be “misguided”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arrests have been made at the latest protest for Palestine Action in London, the Metropolitan Police say. Demonstrators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-118715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}