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7/13/2025, 12:18:35 AM
>Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action, following a second consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws.
>Campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had announced the rallies "to defy" the ban, said 86 people had been arrested across five different cities.
>They included four vicars, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, a mechanical engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistance fighter, as well as veterans of the 1960s civil rights movement, the group added.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said its officers had made 41 arrests for "showing support for a proscribed organisation". Another person was arrested
>Greater Manchester Police arrested 16 people, while officers in the Welsh capital Cardiff detained 13, all for the same offence under the 2000 Terrorism Act
>The other arrests occurred in the Northern Irish city Londonderry -- also known as Derry -- and Leeds, in northern England, according to Defend Our Juries.
>They come a week after 29 similar arrests at protests staged last Saturday, mainly in London.
>Campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had announced the rallies "to defy" the ban, said 86 people had been arrested across five different cities.
>They included four vicars, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, a mechanical engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistance fighter, as well as veterans of the 1960s civil rights movement, the group added.
>In London, the Metropolitan Police said its officers had made 41 arrests for "showing support for a proscribed organisation". Another person was arrested
>Greater Manchester Police arrested 16 people, while officers in the Welsh capital Cardiff detained 13, all for the same offence under the 2000 Terrorism Act
>The other arrests occurred in the Northern Irish city Londonderry -- also known as Derry -- and Leeds, in northern England, according to Defend Our Juries.
>They come a week after 29 similar arrests at protests staged last Saturday, mainly in London.
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