
PALESTINE Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal denied breaching anti-protest laws during last month’s Gaza demonstration in central London as he appeared in court today, ahead of a trial that will see two senior Metropolitan Police officers hauled before a judge.
Crusading human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce and left MP John McDonnell watched proceedings as scores of chanting supporters laid flowers representing Palestinian lives outside Westminster magistrates’ court.
Mr McDonnell and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP, both interviewed by Scotland Yard after the protest in Whitehall on January 18, are waiting to hear if they will be charged after joining a delegation that was violently prevented by police officers from laying flowers in memory of Gaza’s children.

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