Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/pro-palestine-protester-threatened-with-arrest-takes-legal-action-against-kent-police
Posted by topotaul
Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/pro-palestine-protester-threatened-with-arrest-takes-legal-action-against-kent-police
Posted by topotaul
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kent also hosting a that braindead jd vance today. 🙁
Who would have guessed that the police would weaponise the Palestine Action ban to target pro-Palestine protesters more broadly?!
Not sure what claim she’s got – nothing actually happened. She was not arrested, or stopped from doing anything. If anything, their idiocy helped her, cos she went from protesting by herself, to having scores of people the next week.
‘This decision is specific to Palestine Action and does not affect lawful protest groups and other organisations campaigning on issues around Palestine or the middle east.’ – Yvette Cooper, June 23rd
‘Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.’ – armed police, July 16th
A very troubling trend.
>In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
That does sound concerning.
Could be worse, she could have been held for 6 hours for carrying a joke from Private Eye. Honestly between this and the Online so-called Safety Act it’s clear that we are being governed by wannabe totalitarians.
I knew I’d be disappointed by this government but I wasn’t expecting reheated Enoch Powell and vicious authoritarian stomping on anyone who dares to protest. What a wretched state of affairs.