Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism

The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription.

  • eatCasserole@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    2 days ago

    MPs had voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to proscribe the direct action group, alongside the neo-Nazi Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement.

    Has anyone affiliated with the other two groups been arrested since this went into effect?

    • ewo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      302·
      2 days ago

      This is a good question, apparently they’d rather lock up 83 year old women than violent facists and warmongers

          • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            16 hours ago

            oh no, not -gasp- property damage!

            sending military equipment to explode brown children: 😊

            vandalizing military equipment so that you can’t send them to aid the genocide: 😨😠

          • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
            10·
            1 day ago

            vandalising and damaging two Royal Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling planes by spraying paint into their engines.

            Funny, I wasn’t aware vandalism is a synonym to terrorism.