"Police have arrested protesters on suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool. About 100 people gathered silently on Sunday to hold signs reading I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action, according to protest organisation Defend Our Juries, who said there were dozens of arrests. Palestine Action was banned as a terror organisation in July after it claimed responsibility for an action in which two planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire the previous month."
"A Merseyside police spokesperson said: We can confirm that officers are in attendance at a Defend Our Juries protest near to The Wheel of Liverpool this afternoon, Sunday 28 September. Some of the people in attendance have displayed material in support of Palestine Action. Officers are in the process of making arrests on suspicion of wearing/carrying an article supporting a proscribed organisation."
"A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said: We've come to remind everyone that the Labour party is in breach of its duty to act to prevent genocide under international law. Instead it made the cowardly decision to ban the direct action group that was trying to prevent genocide. Labour members and trades unions are overwhelmingly against their party's complicity in genocide and the ban on Palestine Action."
Police arrested protesters outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool on suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action. Around 100 people gathered silently holding signs that read I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action, and organisers reported dozens of arrests. Palestine Action was proscribed in July after claiming responsibility for damage to two planes at RAF Brize Norton. Merseyside police said officers were making arrests for wearing or carrying articles supporting a proscribed organisation. Defend Our Juries accused the Labour party of breaching duties to prevent genocide and criticised the ban and suppression of internal debate. The proscription makes membership or inviting support a criminal offence carrying up to 14 years in prison.
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