Police have arrested 139 pro-Palestine Action demonstrators as they pledged support for the banned group outside the US Embassy on Saturday.
The majority who were detained were done so for expressing support for a proscribed organisation, the Metropolitan Police said.
Defend Our Juries, who organised the protest, said it expected to see 400 people show support for the group by holding up signs reading ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’ – although images suggest the actual number was a little over 100.
Expressing support for the group is an offence in the UK under the Terrorism Act after it was proscribed in
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