Police said on Saturday they had arrested 212 people at a protest in London's Trafalgar Square opposing Britain's ban on the Palestine Action group.
The meeting was the first since London's High Court ruled in February that a ban designating the pro-Palestinian group as a terrorist organization was illegal. UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was given approval to appeal the ruling.
Lawmakers banned Palestine Action – which accuses the British government of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in Gaza – under anti-terrorism legislation last July after some members stormed a Royal Air Force base.
During Saturday's demonstration, protesters holding signs, some wearing black and white Palestinian scarves and waving Palestinian flags, sat on the ground or in camping chairs.
London's Metropolitan Police said in a post on X that they were “continuing to make arrests where people showed support for a banned organisation.”
