Overview
- Metropolitan Police officers detained 31-year-old Rahmeh Aladwan on Tuesday at a South Gloucestershire address on suspicion of misusing a public communications network, three counts of malicious communications, and stirring up racial hatred.
- The force said the arrest is part of a public order investigation into allegedly grossly offensive antisemitic comments made at a protest and online, and she remains in custody.
- An arrest video shared on social media shows an officer outlining the alleged offenses and referencing the Malicious Communications Act and the Communications Act before Aladwan is led away in handcuffs.
- Details cited by police in the video include a July 21 speech outside the Foreign Office and posts on Oct. 7 that they say expressed support for Hamas’s attack on Israel.
- Separately, the General Medical Council has scheduled a fitness-to-practise hearing for Thursday following complaints from the Campaign Against Antisemitism after an earlier tribunal allowed her to continue working.