Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
‘If they can prosecute us, no protest is safe’
Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal denies breaching anti-protest laws
Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal raises his fist in the air before entering Westminster magistrates’ court, February 21, 2025

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.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
People during a protest in Parliament Square, central London in support of Palestine Action, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation. A ban against Palestine Action was announced after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20. Picture date: Saturday July 19, 2025
Activism / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025

Defend Our Juries organiser says police forces are ‘in disarray’ over how to respond to the proscription as November judicial review causes uncertainty 

French authorities seen on a beach in Gravelines, France, as they prepare to fire tear gas at a group of people thought to be migrants, June 17, 2025
Britain / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025

Labour slammed for 'one in, one out' migrant return deal with France

Similar stories
A protest outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, February 1
Britain / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
Hundreds protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court as Stop the War Coalition and Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists attend court