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Photograph: Jim Wileman/Alicia Canter/Christopher Thomond/Martin Godwin/The GuardianIn recent weeks, hundreds of people have been arrested for taking part in demonstrations organised by the campaign group Defend…

The UK’s official human rights watchdog has written to the government and police expressing concern at a potentially “heavy-handed” approach to protests about Gaza and urging…

Protesters arrested for supporting Palestine Action should not be prosecuted until a legal challenge to a ban on the group has been heard, organisations including Greenpeace…

new video loaded: Protest Breaks Out at Police Checkpoint in D.C.transcriptBacktranscriptProtest Breaks Out at Police Checkpoint in D.C.The police and federal agents set up a vehicle…

The next mass protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action will aim to be twice the size of the last, organisers have said, as…

The co-founder of Palestine Action has accused ministers of making false and defamatory allegations about the banned group, and of contradicting their own intelligence assessments in…

NewsFeedPolice in London carried out the most arrests in a single day for a decade, detaining close to 500 peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters for ‘terrorism’. Demonstrators condemned…

Critics say ban on activist group stifles freedom of speech and assembly and aims to curb pro-Palestine demonstrations.Police in London say they have arrested at least…

At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist…

Handcuffed and being hauled into the back of a police van, Tim Crosland still managed to crack a smile after being arrested under the Terrorism Act…