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court cases, the labelling of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, and the failure of Donald Trump’s [Board of Peace](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/what-is-trumps-boards-of-peace-and-who-is-involved) to progress Palestinian self-rule. Both of the frontrunners to replace
UK. Mr Justice Johnson said their actions had aimed to influence the government. Corner was jailed for seven years and eight months for criminal damage and inflicting grievous bodily harm on a police sergeant
UK banned Palestine Action last summer, thousands of Britons have participated in a coordinated campaign of civil disobedience, with more than 2,700 people arrested under terror laws for holding up signs reading, “I oppose
group said their aim was to “dismantle drones and weaponry” they believed would be used to kill people in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action was formally proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation in the UK last
Palestinian people)”. Husain said the home secretary should have considered less restrictive alternative measures to combat Palestine Action and taken into account that Elbit Systems UK and other organisations PA targeted were “alleged to have
ruled in February that the ban on the organisation, the first on a direct action protest group under the Terrorism Act, [was unlawful](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule), but said that it [should remain in place pending
Palestinian activists have been convicted of criminal damage relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit, with one of the defendants found guilty of striking a police officer with
ruled that the home secretary's ban had breached her own policy which limits how and when she could use the exceptional power - although the group remains banned for now while the government appeals
groups, this legal statute has recently been applied to political and climate activists. The prosecution contends that the activists are members of “Palestine Action Germany”, a classification that enables the harsh legal conditions they
Court, the rulings of the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Committee of the Red Cross’s customary humanitarian law – sexual violence in custody includes rape, the insertion of objects, sexual
Palestinians have been killed, including more than 40,000 women, children and elderly. So what does Britain’s shifting stance on protests mean for civil rights, and what’s behind the legal clampdown on climate