UK police breaks ‘terror-related’ arrests record; majority of arrestees pro-Palestinian supporters: Report
The UK’s Home Office has reported that the British police have arrested a record number of people since January on “terrorism-related” charges, with pro-Palestinian supporters forming the majority of the arrestees.
The office reported the figure on Sunday, noting that the police had nabbed at least 1,339 people during the period, acting on the country’s so-called “Terrorism Act 2000.”
According to the report, most of those apprehended were rounded up while holding pro-Palestinian signs during nationwide protests.
Several massive protests erupted across the country after it “proscribed” Palestine Action in July, cracking down on the pro-Palestinian direct action group almost five years into its formation.
Upon its foundation, the group began staging daring acts of protest against the country’s hosting of chapters of Israeli arms manufacturers and assisting the Israeli regime’s deadly atrocities.
The years-long protest action has witnessed the group’s activists targeting the UK-based headquarters of the Israeli companies and other firms contributing to the genocide on numerous occasions.
Saturday witnessed the biggest UK-wide rally so far against the ban, with an estimated 1,500 people demonstrating in Parliament Square in Westminster against both the designation and the ongoing genocide.
Palestine Action intensified its protest in October 2023, when the regime began taking the Gaza Strip under a war of genocide that has so far claimed the lives of nearly 64,400 Palestinians, most women and children.
On the eve of the government ban, its activists forced the UK chapter of Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer, to shut down its Bristol facility after repeated protests.
The police rounded up at least 890 of the participants.
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