Palestine Action says four people charged over military base protest
The campaign group says that four people have been charged with entering a prohibited place and criminal damage after its activists broke into a UK military base last month and sprayed red paint on two planes in protest at the UK’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
In a post on X, it says the state stated that the protest had a “terrorist connection” as it called people to mobilise outside the Westminster Magistrates Court in solidarity with those charged.
PA, the UK news agency, says that the four have been remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Parliament voted 385-26 in favour of the measure against the group on Wednesday, proscribing the campaign group as a “terrorist” organisation.
Critics decried the chilling effect of the ban, which puts Palestine Action on a par with armed groups like al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) in the UK, making it a criminal offence to support or be part of the protest group.
