The Met arrests 325 Palestine Action supporters outside the US embassy days before the Supreme Court hears the ban appeal
OVER 4,000 TOTAL TERRORISM ARRESTS AS 94 YEAR OLD MARGARET OWEN ARRESTED AGAIN Today's arrests outside the US Embassy in London bring the total number of…, in a picture posted on X by Defend Our Juries.Palestine Action supporters detained by Metropolitan Police officers outside the US Embassy in London, days before a Supreme Court hearing on 4 November that will challenge the group's proscription as a terrorist organisation.
All 320 of the terrorism-act arrests on Saturday were for the same act: holding up a sign reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" outside the Nine Elms embassy. Defend Our Juries, which organised the protest, said Saturday's total pushed the cumulative number detained for defying the ban past 4,000 since Palestine Action was proscribed in July 2025.
Charles Allison, 75, a retired lawyer who made the nearly 300-mile journey from Cumbria, was among those arrested and warned that civil liberties are 'being devalued and watered down'.
The Supreme Court appeal against Palestine Action's terror designation is scheduled for November 4, with the Home Office vowing to 'robustly defend' the proscription.
Defend Our Juries asked how PM Andy Burnham could 'possibly justify arrests today for holding up words' recently deemed below the criminal threshold when spoken by his national security adviser's wife.
