LONDON: Senior figures in the UK’s ruling Labour Party are sounding the alarm over the government’s banning of the group Palestine Action.
It comes after hundreds of people were arrested in London last weekend under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act.
The protesters had held signs demonstrating support for Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organization in July.
Former Minister Peter Hain said the issue “will end in tears for the government,” The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
The former anti-apartheid activist added: “We are seeing retired magistrates, retired and serving doctors and all sorts of people being arrested and now effectively being equated with terrorists such as Al-Qaeda, which is absolutely wrong.”
