UK police apologize to pro-Palestine protester for ‘unlawful false imprisonment’

LONDON: Police in the UK have apologized to a protester wrongly threatened with arrest under terrorism legislation. Laura Murton, 43, had held signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” on July 14 in the English city of Canterbury. She was accosted by armed officers who claimed she was supporting banned group Palestine Action, and who threatened to arrest her unless she provided her name and personal address.

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