Overview

• Palestine Action has secured an urgent hearing on Friday to seek interim relief against a draft order that would designate it as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act.
• The Home Secretary laid a draft proscription order before Parliament on June 30, with MPs and peers expected to debate it on Wednesday and Thursday and a ban potentially effective by this weekend.
• Activists have continued direct-action blockades at Elbit Systems sites in Bristol and Suffolk, where two protesters were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and unauthorised entry.
• Civil liberties groups, including Netpol and Amnesty International, alongside UN special rapporteurs, have warned that classifying peaceful property damage as terrorism threatens fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly.
• If approved, membership of or support for Palestine Action would carry penalties of up to 14 years in prison, marking the first time a domestic protest group faces proscription under the Terrorism Act.