Seven people have been charged yesterday following a protest in London in support of Palestine Action, a campaign organisation the British government has proposed to ban under anti-terrorism laws.
The ban, which was announced on Monday and will be laid before parliament next week, would make it a criminal offence to belong to the group after its activists damaged two UK military planes in protest at London’s support for Israel.
Palestine Action, which called the ban ‘an unhinged reaction’, was forced to change the location of a planned protest to London’s Trafalgar Square after police banned it from staging a demonstration outside parliament.
The Metropolitan Police said although the protest began peacefully, there were clashes between officers and people in the crowd, with 13 arrests made. Of those, seven people have been charged.
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