(AFP) – The capital police said on Sunday that a total of 890 people were arrested in London during a protest this week in support of the banned collective group.
The force said 857 people were arrested under anti -terrorism laws for supporting a banned group during a demonstration on Saturday, with an additional 33 arrest of other crimes, including attacks on police officers.
“It is the duty to apply the law without fear or good. If you announce that you are intended to commit a crime, we have no choice but to respond accordingly,” said Commissioner Claire Smart, Deputy Commissioner Claire Smart in a statement.
In July, the government banned Palestine under the UK’s terrorism law 2000 after many sabotage, including against two planes at the Royal Air Force base, which caused damage estimated at 7 million pounds ($ 10 million).
Critics, including the United Nations, condemned the prohibition as a legal transgression and a threat to freedom of expression, but the ministers insist that people are still able to attend the pro -Palestinian marches.
Smart added: “The contrast between this demonstration and the other protests that we made yesterday, including the march of the Palestinian coalition, which was attended by about 20,000 people, was blatant.”
“You can express your support for a case without committing a crime under the law of terrorism or going to violence and turmoil, and several people do this in London every week.”
An estimated 1500 participated in the protest of the Palestinian action outside Parliament, while condemning the “unbearable” abuse, which its officers claimed that they were subjected to.
The force said that among the 33 people were arrested due to a non -strike crime, he was 17 for attacks on police officers.
The protest organizers, the campaign group, to defend our jury bodies (Doj), said that “lifting the ban” was “the image of a peaceful protest.”
It seems that many who have been seized to show support for the work of Palestine.
Most of them face six months in prison if convicted, but gathering organizers can be sentenced to up to 14 years if he is convicted.
Five members of the defense of our jury bodies were arrested earlier this week before the protest.
Former Minister Evit Cooper, who supervised the ban, accused the Palestinian action of organizing “aggressive and exhausting attacks against companies, institutions and the public.”
Cooper also suggested that some Palestinian action supporters “do not know the full nature of this organization, because of the court’s restrictions on reports while there are serious trials.”
The ban appears to have increased support unless an unknown organization.
“It is very important for me that groups called terrorist groups must be terrorist groups,” said 60 -year -old Philip Hughes, who carries a sign.
“You cannot go and use terrorist laws to go and stop an organization that objects to something I have done,” he told AFP.
The gatherings came at a time when Israel launched new raids on Gaza, and the declared goal of seizing Gaza City to defeat the Hamas armed group.