So Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a placard that said:
'I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.'
It will be interesting to see if Thunberg's case gets to court because its far from clear that this specific wording articulates support for a proscribed organisation...it may well be a case of [edit] City of London Police over-reach!
In any case its another arrest of a peaceful protestor..
@ChrisMayLA6 The authoritarian instincts of this administration marry up very nicely with the brutal far-right instints of the #Met
Imagine what terror would unleashed under an even less progressive government.
@ChrisMayLA6 The UK is a strict IHRA jurisdiction concerning antisemitism (see also: Jeremy Corbyn), and interpreted as such, Thunberg’s presence could be considered to be “not conducive to public order”. IIRC, the UK has procedures to deny by default entry to any non-citizens who have been deported from another country, which makes it surprising that she wasn’t stopped at the border in the first place.
However, she was arrested under the Terrorism Act, directly linked to the proscription of PA...
Did you spell her name wrong on purpose? 🫣
certainly not, have now corrected it; thanks forgetting me know
Please take another look. I guess you mean *Greta* Thunberg and not *Great* Thunberg. That's the part that still reads so odd that it madecl me think you are probably mocking her for some reason.
I guess the Christmas stress is taking a toll on you 🙃
Crikey, what a typo car-crash - now corrected - thanks again
@ChrisMayLA6 If the police came to see me I could find them something useful to do.
The sooner the Home Office and the Met stop trying to suppress these protests with a heavy hand, the few such absurd headlines there will be.
What an utter waste of everyone's time and resources.
@ChrisMayLA6 That does look like Met overreach again. A reminder of the arrest over Plasticine Action placard.
@ag_tn21 it doesn't sound like it was the met police fwiw @ChrisMayLA6
News and community around mavnn.eu projects.
