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Green Party politician Jenny Jones was among 15 democracy activists arrested yesterday as cops stormed into Parliament Square to clear out their camp.
Ms Jones was restrained as she attempted to hold on to a man who was being taken by the police for holding on to a piece of tarpaulin.
Ms Jones, the deputy chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee, complained that police officers were hurting her and twisting her wrists.
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At 80, Elizabeth Morley wished she could join Palestine Action’s ladder-climbing but found her perfect protest at Defend Our Juries, proving Britain’s elders won’t be silenced despite government crackdowns, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’