Overview

• The High Court declined an urgent bid to suspend the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000, keeping the group’s designation as a terrorist organization in force.
• Police detained 55 supporters at Parliament Square in London for displaying placards backing the banned group and arrested others in Truro, Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester.
• Defend Our Juries reports that nearly 100 people were arrested on July 19, bringing total detentions tied to Palestine Action protests to around 200 since early July.
• United Nations experts have criticized London’s terrorism classification, arguing that property damage without threats to life does not meet international standards of terrorism.
• The UK government moved to proscribe Palestine Action days after activists breached an RAF airbase and splashed red paint on military aircraft, leading to four charges.