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Police in London arrested at least 365 people Saturday for supporting Palestine Action, at the latest and largest protest backing the group since the government banned it last month under anti-terror laws.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police said it made the hundreds of arrests, thought to be one of the highest ever at a single protest in the UK capital, for \u201csupporting a proscribed organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n
It also arrested seven for other offences including assaults on officers, though none were seriously injured, it added.<\/p>\n
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The government outlawed Palestine Action in early July days after it took responsibility for a break-in at an air force base in southern England that caused an estimated \u00a37 million ($9.3 million) of damage to two aircraft.<\/p>\n
The group said its activists were responding to Britain\u2019s indirect military support for Israel amid the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s interior ministry reiterated ahead of Saturday\u2019s protests that Palestine Action is also suspected of other \u201cserious attacks\u201d that involved \u201cviolence, significant injuries and extensive criminal damage\u201d.<\/p>\n
But critics, including the United Nations and NGOs like Amnesty International\u00a0and Greenpeace, have lambasted the move as legal overreach and a threat to free speech.<\/p>\n
A group called Defend Our Juries, which organised Saturday\u2019s protests and previous demonstrations against the ban, said \u201cunprecedented numbers\u201d had risked \u201carrest and possible imprisonment\u201d to \u201cdefend this country\u2019s ancient liberties\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will keep going. Our numbers are already growing for the next wave of action in September,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Attendees began massing near parliament at lunchtime bearing signs saying \u201coppose genocide, support Palestine Action\u201d and other slogans, and waving Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n
Psychotherapist Craig Bell, 39, was among those holding a placard.<\/p>\n
He branded the ban \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you compare Palestine Action with an actual terrorist group who are killing civilians and taking lives, it\u2019s just a joke that they\u2019re being prescribed a terrorist group,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n
As police moved in on the demonstrators, they applauded those being arrested and shouted \u201cshame on you\u201d at officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet them arrest us all,\u201d said Richard Bull, 42, a wheelchair-user in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis government has gone too far. I have nothing to feel ashamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defend Our Juries had claimed only a \u201cfraction\u201d of the hundreds who turned out had been detained, but the Met insisted that \u201csimply isn\u2019t true\u201d and that all those showing support for Palestine Action would be arrested.<\/p>\n
The London force noted some of those there were onlookers or not visibly supporting the group.<\/p>\n
The Met also detailed how the hundreds arrested were taken to temporary \u201cprisoner processing\u201d points, where their details were confirmed and they were either instantly bailed or taken into custody elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Police forces across the UK have made scores of similar arrests since the government outlawed Palestine Action on July 5, making being a member or supporting the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Police announced this week that the first three people had been charged in the English and Welsh criminal justice system with supporting Palestine Action following their arrests at a July 5 demo.<\/p>\n
Seven people have so far been charged in Scotland, which has a separate legal system.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International UK Chief Executive Sacha Deshmukh wrote to Met Police chief Mark Rowley this week urging restraint be exercised when policing people holding placards expressing support for Palestine Action.<\/p>\n
The NGO has argued arrests of such people are in breach of international human rights law.<\/p>\n
A UK court challenge against the decision to proscribe Palestine Action will be heard later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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