Group called 'violent' by government

PALESTINE Action is “violent” and has committed “significant injury” as well as criminal damage, Downing Street has said, after hundreds of arrests were made at a protest linked to the group.

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Number 10 defended the government's move to ban the organisation under counter-terror laws, saying that evidence and security assessments shared in closed court supported its proscription.

Scotland Yard has said some 522 people were held over the weekend for displaying an item in support of a proscribed group, out of the total 532 arrests made during the policing operation at a march in central London.