{"id":500983,"date":"2026-03-29T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:41:11","slug":"eighteen-arrested-after-palestine-action-protest-outside-new-scotland-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500983\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen arrested after Palestine Action protest outside New Scotland Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, the High Court ruled against the government over its decision to ban the Palestine Action group under anti-terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n

In response, the Met indicated it was subsequently unlikely to make arrests, although police warned that support was still a criminal offence and officers would continue to gather evidence of any potential offences.<\/p>\n

But on 26 March, the Met revised its position<\/a>, saying people would again likely face arrest for shows of support for Palestine Action. This was because the result of the government’s appeal against the High Court decision would likely take several months, the force said.<\/p>\n

Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman said: “We must enforce the law as it is at the time, not as it might be at a future date. We must do that consistently and without fear or favour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February, the High Court ruled against the government over its decision to ban the Palestine Action group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-500983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500983","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=500983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}