Overview

• The Metropolitan Police report 200 arrests for displaying pro–Palestine Action placards, while media outlets and protest organisers cite figures ranging from roughly 360 to over 550
• Officers targeted individuals openly showing support on Parliament Square and noted that most detainees offered no resistance before being taken into custody
• Three people have already been charged under the Terrorism Act for supporting a proscribed organisation and counterterrorism detectives are assembling files for further prosecutions
• The UK government and Home Office invoke “worrying information” about Palestine Action’s activities to defend its designation as a terrorist group
• UN rights experts, Amnesty International and civil-liberties advocates argue that applying antiterror laws to property-damage activism risks undermining freedom of expression and assembly