US EditionPalestine Action member tells BBC plan to ban group 'absurd'
- Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to announce on Monday that Palestine Action will be treated as a terrorist group, making it illegal to join or support them.
- Palestine Action's actions, including spraying paint into a jet engine, are under investigation by counter-terror police.
- Amnesty International condemned the potential ban, calling it a troubling use of counter-terrorism powers against protest groups.
- Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie criticized the use of terrorism legislation against non-violent protesters, calling it 'deeply authoritarian.
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The Independent (US)Palestine Action member says potential ban ‘absurd’
A Palestine Action member has said the governments plans to proscribe the group, effectively branding them a terrorist organisation is "absurd." Saeed Taji Farouky said it "rips apart the very basic concepts of British democracy and the rule of law... something everyone should be terrified about." It is understood the home secretary is preparing a statement to put before Parliament on Monday, after Palestine Action activists broke into RAF Brize…
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