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SvennoJ on 12 August 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

You think that picture is proof of harm being done? She's displeased because she's being arrested, and no-one likes being arrested. When you get arrested, the police often have to use force, because people very rarely just happily accept they're being arrested and just casually walk with you to the police car.

Well, if they won't prosecute and actually have consequences for supporting PA then I agree with you it is pointless having them prescribed as terror organisation. I suspect though, they are giving people a warning to stop now, but in the future there will be much heavier penalties, like losing access to your bank account etc. It might escalate even further than that. 

Not just physical harm to her person, she is subjected to police intimidation, rounded up as a criminal and released on bail, forbidden to join another protest.

Not just harm to those arrested, far greater harm to UK's reputation as well as that to UK's police force. The police losing more respect from the population only makes their real job harder.


And yes they are testing the waters whether they can get away with this before starting with heavier penalties. THAT precisely is why it is of utmost importance to nip this attack on free speech in the bud.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/over-400-activists-arrested-at-palestine-action-protest-in-london/

In July, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned that the ban of Palestine Action under the act was an over-extension of counter-terrorism powers to non-terrorist conduct. He stated that the decision to designate the organization as a terrorist group was disproportionate, violating freedom of expression and assembly.

According to the Network for Police Monitoring (NETPOL), the criminalization of support for the group is a political move aiming to shut down solidarity campaigns for the Palestinians. Particularly, NETPOL noted that the broad and poorly defined anti-terrorism law gives police powers that could be abused in racist and Islamophobic ways.