On Saturday, the police in London arrested 522 people who were protesting against the recent UK’s decision to ban the collective Palestine Group, a toll believed to include the highest level ever in one protest in the British capital.
On Sunday, the Capital Police updated it Previous arrest of 466 She said that all the arrests except for 522 arrests in a protest in the central London Square in London and were to display banners supporting Palestine.
Other residency took place in the same crime in the nearby messenger Square, where thousands gathered in the march of the Palestine Alliance and appeared against the Israeli war in Gaza, which killed at least 61,430 people and wounded 153, 213.
He added on Sunday on Sunday: She added on Sunday that MET made 10 other arrests on Saturday, including six attacks on the officers, although none of them were seriously injured.
The protests were the latest in a series of gatherings condemning the British government The prohibition of work Palestine According to the terrorist law 2000 on July 5, days after the group assumed responsibility for storming at the Air Force base in southern England, which caused an estimated 7 million pounds (9.4 million dollars) of two planes.
The group said that its activists were responding to indirect military support in the United Kingdom of Israel amid the war in Gaza.
Hoda Amouri, the Palestine Action Foundation, said before Saturday’s protests that they will “will” descend in the history of our country as a major work of the collective challenge of an unprecedented attack on our basic freedoms.
The force said that the average age of those arrested on Saturday was 54, with six teenagers, 97 years in the seventies of the last century, and 15 octogans.
Almost an equal number of men and women have been arrested.
In a statement after the last mass arrests, the Minister of Interior, Yoveette Coper, defended the government’s decision, and insisted on this: “National security and public safety in the United Kingdom must always be our maximum priority.”
“The assessments are very clear-this is not a violent organization,” she added.
However, critics, including the United Nations and groups such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace, have condemned the protection of the government as a legal transgression and a threat to freedom of expression.
“If this is happening in another country, the UK government expresses serious concerns about freedom of expression and human rights,” said Araba Hamed, Executive Director of Greenpis in the United Kingdom.
She added that the government “has now sank enough to turn the dead into the thought police, and direct work into terrorism.”
Police throughout the United Kingdom has made dozens of similar arrests since July 5, when it became a member of Palestine or the group’s support for a criminal crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Police announced this week that the first three persons in the criminal justice system were charged in English and Wallisy with such support after their arrest in the July 5 demonstration.
In its update on Sunday, MET revealed 26 other files after other arrests on that day, to be presented to the prosecutors “harmful” and that more will follow it regarding the subsequent protests.
She believes that 30 of those held on Saturday have been arrested in the previous Palestine work protests.
The MET added that eighteen people were in detention by lunch time on Sunday, but it was released for guarantee within hours.
She pointed out that the officers from the Anti -Terrorism Command will now collect the files of the case required to secure the fees against their arrest as part of this operation.
The demonstrators call for the release of Israeli prisoners
Meanwhile, the demonstrators, who were calling for the release of Israeli prisoners who were sacked in Gaza in central London on Sunday.
Among the demonstrators, who planned the march to the residence of Prime Minister Kiir Starmer in Downing Street to attend a march, Nouga Gutman, the cousin of the 24 -year -old prisoner Evitar David, who appeared in a video that angered the Israelis when Hamas released last week. The video showed a meager, saying that he was digging his grave inside a tunnel in Gaza.
On October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on southern Israel, which sparked Israel’s war on Gaza, more than 200 people were transported. There are still about 50 prisoners who have not been released. It is believed that twenty alive.
Israel announced last week its intention to seize Gaza City as part of a plan to end the war and bring prisoners to the home. Family members and many international leaders condemned this plan, saying that it would lead to more bloodshed and prejudice to the prisoners.
“We are united in a clear and urgent request: the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” he said, hate, an alliance of groups that organize the march, in a statement.
“Regardless of our various political views, this is not a political issue – it is a humanitarian issue.”
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