LONDON: Eighty-year-old Deborah Hinton, a retired English magistrate, does not look like most people’s idea of a terrorist.
But she is currently on bail awaiting trial under the UK’s Terrorism Act for supporting a proscribed terrorist organization. If convicted, she faces a possible sentence of up to 14 years in jail.
Hinton is just one of hundreds of British people from all walks of life who have taken to the streets in peaceful protest against what they see as their government’s cynical and disproportionate decision to label the activist group Palestine Action as a terror organization.
She is not even the oldest protester scooped up by police. In July, Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old retired vicar, was arrested in London.
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