LONDON (Reuters) -Fifty-five folks had been arrested at a rally for the banned Palestine Motion group exterior Britain’s parliament on Saturday, London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned.
The gang in Parliament Sq. had been waving placards supporting the group that was banned this month underneath anti-terrorism laws, the pressure mentioned in a submit on X.
Folks from the rally, some sporting black and white Palestinian scarves, had been taken away in police vans.
British lawmakers proscribed the group earlier this month after a few of its members broke right into a Royal Air Power base and broken planes in protest in opposition to Britain’s assist for Israel.
Membership of Palestine Motion now carries a jail sentence of as much as 14 years.
The group has known as the choice “authoritarian”, and a problem to the ban shall be heard at London’s Excessive Courtroom on Monday.
Palestine Motion is amongst teams which have commonly focused defence companies and different corporations in Britain linked to Israel for the reason that begin of the battle in Gaza.
Police have arrested scores of the group’s supporters at rallies throughout Britain for the reason that ban got here in
(Reporting by Suban Abdulla; Modifying by Andrew Heavens)