Police explain 30 arrests for holding up signs in Bristol View 4 Images

Police in Bristol who arrested 30 people for silently holding up signs said they tried to explain to them before they arrested them that what the sign said constituted a criminal offence. The mass arrest on College Green took more than three hours on Saturday afternoon as police officers arrested one protester after another and led or carried them away to waiting police vans.

The protest was part of a national campaign to challenge the Government’s decision back in June to proscribe the direct action protest group Palestine Action. The protesters lined up and wrote on signs the words: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’.

Many of those being arrested told officers that the police themselves were bre

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