LONDON: Defend Our Juries is staging nationwide demonstrations across 18 towns and cities in November, demanding that the UK government end the proscription of Palestine Action.
The group estimated that 1,500 participants will attend demonstrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth, Nottingham, Northampton, Gloucester, Truro, London, Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter, and Lancaster.
UK police have arrested over 2,000 individuals for allegedly supporting Palestine Action, which was banned in July. Some are currently in prison awaiting trial and plan to begin hunger strikes this Sunday.
Defend Our Juries noted varying police responses to the ban, with no arrests in Northern Ireland and 10 in Scotland. Many protesters were arrested for holding placards in public that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Defend Our Juries spokesperson Dr. Clive Dolphin said: “This is about, here in the UK, people having the right to protest, the right to speak up to government when they think the government has got something wrong, and fundamentally this is about the fact that the British people oppose genocide.
