Protesters wave Palestinian flags exterior Westminster Magistrates Court docket on July 3, 2025, in London, England. File
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A U.Okay. authorities transfer to ban the Palestine Motion marketing campaign group beneath anti-terror legal guidelines cleared parliament on Thursday (July 4, 2025) however faces a court docket problem to cease the proscription changing into legislation.
Friends in parliament’s Home of Lords higher chamber backed the transfer to proscribe the group beneath the Terrorism Act of 2000 with out a vote, a day after MPs accredited the laws.
The federal government introduced it might ban Palestine Motion after activists from the group broke into an air force base in southern England final week.
Two plane on the base have been sprayed with purple paint inflicting an estimated £7 million ($9.55 million) in injury.
The group has condemned the proposed proscription as an “unhinged response”. An pressing listening to to problem the ban is about to be held on the Excessive Court docket in London on Friday.
The authorized problem is backed by Amnesty Worldwide and different rights teams.
The proposed ban on Palestine Motion would make it a prison offence to belong to or help the group, punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.
Asserting the clamp-down, Inside Minister Yvette Cooper listed different assaults by Palestine Motion on the Thales defence manufacturing facility in Glasgow in 2022, and two final yr in opposition to Instro Precision in Kent, southeast England, and Israel-based Elbit Programs in Bristol, within the nation’s southwest.
Thursday’s approval by the Lords got here as 4 Palestine Motion activists have been remanded in custody over the break in.
Counter-terror police on Wednesday charged the 4 suspects with “conspiracy to enter a prohibited place knowingly for a function prejudicial to the protection or pursuits of the UK, and conspiracy to commit prison injury.”
Prosecutors will argue the offences have been terror-linked.
Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Daniel Jeronymides-Norie, 35, Jony Cink, 24, and Lewie Chiaramello, 22, appeared at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket.
They have been remanded in custody till their subsequent look at London’s Previous Bailey prison court docket on July 18.
A 41-year-old lady who was arrested “on suspicion of helping an offender” has been launched on bail.
Revealed – July 04, 2025 03:20 am IST
