Posted on September 7, 2025
London authorities arrested nearly 900 people during a demonstration in support of the Palestine prohibited group, police said.
The new count, announced on Sunday, highlights the strict approach that the police adopted against the demonstrators, who insisted on the organizers.
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Metropolitan police said they had arrested 890 people on Saturday, including 857 suspected of having shown support for a prohibited group. Thirty-three others were detained for allegedly attacked agents and other public order offenses.
Defending our juries, the campaign group which organized the demonstration on Saturday, also rejected the police that the demonstrators were violent.
“Among the 857 people arrested, there were vicars and priests, veterans of war and descendants of holocaust survivors, retired teachers and health workers,” the group said in a statement.
He accused the police of making “many false affirmations and tried to dirty the demonstrators” to justify demonstrators of peace to arrest with signs who said: “I oppose the genocide – I support the action of Palestine”.
“Although the MET did not provide evidence that saved their claims, the video sequences clearly show the Met, which violently stopped people, brandishing their batons and pushing people on the ground,” said our juries.
“We are non -violent, and you?”
The press agency of the Press Association reported that the police had attracted batons during clashes with demonstrators. The agents forced their path through the crowd while carrying arrested demonstrators and were seen by shouting confrontations with demonstrators.
Bottles of water and plastic were thrown into the police, said the agency, while several demonstrators fell into a crush. A man was photographed with blood flowing on his face after being arrested.
Amnesty International UK, which deployed observers to monitor the demonstration, also challenged the police claims that the demonstrators had “coordinated” violence during the rally.
“Our observers have witnessed the defense of our juries which manifest themselves entirely peaceful,” said the group.
He described the scenes of arrests a “shocking demonstration of the way in which the laws on too broad terrorism of the United Kingdom are used to suppress freedom of expression”.
“The police, on several occasions, were aggressive towards the supporters of the demonstrations,” said Amnesty.
“This violently included people ‘push and withdrawn it from batons to make room while demonstrators were arrested and transported in police vans.”
However, the assistant assistant commissioner Claire Smart had previously said that the police had been “coordinated” of violence during the demonstration.
“You can express your support for a cause without committing an offense under the law on terrorism or descending into violence and disorder, and several thousand people do in London every week,” she said in a statement.
Gatherings also took place in Belfast and Edinburgh. Scotland police said two men, 67 and 82, had been arrested and accused of “terrorist” offenses while a third man, 63, was accused of a crime of hatred.
The demonstrations are the last people of a wave of demonstrations against the British government’s decision to proscribe action in Palestine under the 2000 law on terrorism.
The group, which has targeted arms factories and other arms exports to Israel, was prohibited after claiming the responsibility to pulverize two travel and transport traveling planes in a military base with red paint.
Being a member or expressing support for action in Palestine is now a criminal offense punishable by a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
In July, the United Nations human rights experts raised concerns about what they called “the unjustified labeling of a political protest movement as a terrorist”, arguing that “the acts of protest that harm goods, but are not intended to kill or hurt people, should not be treated as terrorism”.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior appeals to a decision of the High Court allowing the co -founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, to continue a legal challenge against the prohibition.
Ammori launched a procedure against the decision of the former interior secretary, Yvette Cooper, to proscribe the group, arguing that the decision illegally criminalized political dissent.
The weekend demonstrations took place because Israel intensifies its assault against Gaza, that academics, the main rights defense groups and UN experts described as a genocide.
According to British media, British forces have piloted Gaza surveillance drones in support of Israeli operations.