UK police ban Palestine Action protest outside parliament
The rare move came after two of the group’s members broke into a military base; the government announced later on Monday that it would ban the organisation
British police have banned campaign group Palestine Action from protesting outside parliament in London on Monday, a rare move that comes after two of its members broke into a military base last week and as the government considered banning the organisation.
The group said in response that it had changed the location of its protest on Monday to Trafalgar Square, which lies just outside the police exclusion zone.
Later on Monday, British interior minister Yvette Cooper announced that she would be banning the campaign group.
Cooper said the vandalism of two aeroplanes at RAF Brize Norton in southern England on Friday was “disgraceful” and the group had a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage”.
The pro-Palestinian organisation is among groups that have regularly targeted defence firms and other companies in Britain linked to Israel since the start of the conflict in Gaza.