Scotland Yard has been accused of suppressing a peaceable pro-Palestinian protest after the co-head of Greenpeace UK was arrested for pouring biodegradable blood-red dye right into a pond outdoors the US embassy in London.
Will McCallum, the co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, was amongst 5 folks arrested when the big pond outdoors the embassy was turned pink on Thursday in what Greenpeace mentioned was a protest on the US authorities’s continued sale of weapons to Israel.
Greenpeace mentioned McCallum had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to trigger legal injury, which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail. 4 different activists had been additionally arrested close to the embassy on suspicion of legal injury and conspiracy to trigger legal injury.
In response to the marketing campaign group, 12 activists tipped non-toxic, biodegradable dye from containers emblazoned with the phrases Cease Arming Israel into the pond in 9 Elms, south-west London. The containers had been delivered to the embassy on bicycles with trailers disguised as supply bikes.
Areeba Hamid, the co-executive director at Greenpeace UK, mentioned: “These arrests are additional proof that the fitting to protest is below assault within the UK. This protest used biodegradable pond dye that’s designed to disperse and wash away naturally.
“We took this motion as a result of US weapons proceed to gasoline an indiscriminate struggle that’s seen bombs dropped on colleges and hospitals, whole neighbourhoods blasted to rubble, and tens of 1000’s of Palestinian lives obliterated. As the most important provider of weapons to the Israeli navy, the US authorities bears a heavy accountability for the horrors unfolding in Gaza.”
Israel’s navy marketing campaign in Gaza, by which it has killed greater than 50,000 folks, was in response to Hamas’s 7 October assault, by which greater than 1,200 folks, largely civilians, had been killed and an additional 250 taken hostage.
Greenpeace UK is campaigning for the UK and US governments to announce a complete arms embargo on Israel.
A Metropolitan police spokesperson mentioned: “5 folks have to date been arrested close by on suspicion of legal injury and conspiracy to trigger legal injury. The pond is accessible through a public footpath. There was no breach or tried breach of the safe perimeter of the location.”
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