Jonathan Schofield@urlyman@mastodon.social
La Pethick, an 89-year old retired psychotherapist, one of 466 people arrested yesterday, is removed by 4 policemen.
For holding cardboard signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
She and her fellow activists triggered the police into arresting over 120 more than the previous largest number of arrests in a single protest, thought to be the poll tax riots in 1990.
The photo is by Toby Shepheard for the Sunday Times.
#gaza #democracy
https://archive.ph/2025.08.09-205507/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/palestine-action-protests-march-5jgf7q6q8
WanderingHuman 🇨🇦
@ECityMom@mstdn.ca
@urlyman@mastodon.social @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social Forgive my ignorance, but since when is peaceful protest illegal? In Canada, we have very strongly upheld constitutional rights to freedoms of speech & association, which protect our right to peaceful protest. I thought the UK had similar laws. What am I missing?
