cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46434641

More than 700 people have been arrested since it was banned as a terrorist group in early July, including 522 people arrested at a protest last weekend for displaying placards backing the group – thought to be the highest ever recorded number of detentions at a single protest in the British capital.

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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Decades down the road people will, rightfully, wear this kind of persecution as a badge of honor.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    Great use of taxpayer money. Definitely nothing better to spend it on and no better people to be taking legal action against.

    Absolutely no other social issues to tackle above this

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    I love how being against a genocide is now illegal in half of " the west".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Maybe when it all turns to shit, Yvette Cooper will be forced to resign. It'd be nice to be rid of her. She's always been highly authoritarian, as well as a generally obnoxious, entitled, time-serving waste of space.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Can't all the protesters support Palestine ActionS and sidestep the law?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The point is to protest the law, as well as the genocide.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Stopping people being slaughtered is more important than being able to put 2 specific words together.

    The only excuse is if the arrests make the anti genocide protests more prominent.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I feel safer already.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    You know there was once a time in my life where I could probably smugly sit here and talk about actual freedom. Talk about the first Amendment. Those years have passed now. Now I just feel empathy. Cuz we're all going to hell together.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    UK is turning into totalitarism

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