Overview

• On August 9, police detained between 200 and 466 demonstrators in Parliament Square for displaying support for a proscribed organisation under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
• Defend Our Juries organised the sit-in during which protesters held placards reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in deliberate defiance of the July 5 ban.
• Metropolitan Police brought in hundreds of mutual aid officers and enacted ‘street bail’ procedures to process the largest single-day wave of terrorism-law arrests in more than a decade.
• Earlier this month, Jeremy Shippam, Judit Murray and Fiona Maclean became the first individuals formally charged under the new proscription law for earlier displays of support.
• Co-founder Huda Ammori has secured leave for a full judicial review of the Home Office ban, drawing warnings from Amnesty International, UN experts and academics about chilling effects on peaceful protest.