Six people were arrested by London police on Saturday for showing support for the banned pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action and dispersed demonstrators who gathered for a protest. Authorities said the rally went ahead despite requests to cancel it after a deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester earlier in the week.

Two people were killed in the attack in the northwestern city on Thursday and police shot dead the assailant, a British man of Syrian descent who counter-terrorism police said may have been inspired by extremist Islamist ideology.

Organisers refused requests by the police and government to call off the demonstration, which had been announced before the attack, to protest against the banning of Palestine Action group under anti-terrorism laws.

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