The police have arrested protesters on suspicion of supporting the forbidden Group Palestinian action outside the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool.
About 100 people gathered silently on Sunday to keep signs with the text “I oppose Genocide, I support Palestine promotion”, according to the protest organization our juries defended that there were dozens of arrests.
Palestine promotion was banned in July as a terrorist organization after it claimed responsibility for an action in which two aircraft were damaged last month at Raf Bize Norton in Oxfordshire.
A spokesperson for the Merseyside police said: “We can confirm that officers are present in a defense of our jury’s protest near the steering wheel of Liverpool this afternoon, Sunday 28 September.
“Some of the people present have shown material to support Palestinian action.
“Officers are working on arresting the suspicion of wearing/wearing an article to support a forbidden organization.”
A spokesperson for defending our jury’s said: “We have come to remind everyone that the Labor Party is contrary to its duty to act to prevent genocide under international law.
“Instead, it has made the cowardly decision to prohibit the direct action group that tried to prevent genocide.
“Work members and trade unions are overwhelming against the complicity of their party in genocide and the ban on Palestinian action.
“Nevertheless, party officials have concluded all the debates that members wanted on these issues during their conference.
“Labor also got rid of Jack Straw’s promise that the terrorist law he introduced would never be used against a domestic protest group.”
Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that more than 1,600 people were arrested and accused 138 of them for alleged support for Palestinian action since the prohibition on 5 July entered into force.
The prohibition makes membership of the group, or inviting support for this, a criminal offense under the Terrorism Act, with a maximum punishment of 14 years in prison.
It is the first time that a direct action protest group has been classified as a terrorist organization.
One of the demonstrators, Keith Hackett, 71, said: “Today I risk the arrest under the legislation of terrorism because as a former labor council in Liverpool I was deeply ashamed of how work acting.
“If they want to start turning the party and recovering the support they have lost, they must put their complicity in this genocide and end the ban on Palestinian action.”
Tayo Aluko, 63, an actor, writer and singer from Liverpool, said: “This government wants, like all authoritarian regimes in modern times, to plant anxiety in the citizens, so that it can keep their friends and paymasters away with genocide.
“I feel that I have no choice but to stand on and be counted.”
Kerry Moscogiuri, the Director of Communication and Campaigns of Amnesty International UK, said: “These arrests may not take place.
“It is clearly both ridiculous and seriously disproportionate to the police to focus and arrest people before sitting, holding a sign quietly.
“There are serious human rights problems about not only the ban on Palestinian action, but also the hair -raising consequences that this decision has had.”
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