Exclusive: Prominent figures risk arrest with message of support for proscribed group before next week’s appeal hearing
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Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg and Brian Eno have written to the court of appeal in support of Palestine Action before next week’s hearing to determine the lawfulness of the ban on the direct action protest group.
The letter, composed of only six words – “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action” – is signed by more than 130 people and is the first time that prominent scholars, writers and activists have come together to defy the ban.
Three senior judges ruled in February that the ban on the organisation, the first on a direct action protest group under the Terrorism Act, was unlawful, but said that it should remain in place pending the appeal, which will begin at the court of appeal on Tuesday. After the high court’s decision, the Metropolitan police said it would stop arresting people, but has since resumed arrests.
