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Police have arrested "more than 50 people" for supporting Palestine Action as "hundreds" gathered in Parliament Square to protest the group's proscription. Loading audio...

Metropolitan Police officers began arresting protesters in Parliament Square, holding placards reading: "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action."

Supporting a proscribed group is a terror offence in the UK.

Clusters of officers could be seen holding individual protesters sat on the edge of the grass and escorting them through swelling crowds to police vans on the edge of the square.

A separate group of officers could be seen attending to a protester lying next to the fenced-off Emmeline Pankhurst statue.

The main, larger group of protesters in the middle of the central London square remained

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