Protest details changed for Nineham, Jamal court appearance

Starmer’s war on anti-genocide marchers and Met Police’s stitch-up go to court – and protesters will be there to support persecuted pair

A protest taking place over the prosecutions of Stop the War’s Chris Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Ben Jamal tomorrow morning has changed its venue and will now take place at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road NW1 5BR.

The pair are being prosecuted after a stitch-up by the Met Police on 18 January, in which anti-genocide protesters were banned by police from demonstrating at the BBC HQ on the spurious grounds that the march would pass a synagogue some half a mile away, as part of Keir Starmer’s ‘lawfare’ war on speech, protest and journalism against Israel’s slaughter of around 400,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, half of them children.

Protesters were invited through police lines – with abundant video evidence – to lay wreaths to murdered Palestinian children in Trafalgar Square – then kettled, and some prosecuted, for being there. Nineham was brutally arrested, apparently after being asked to speak to senior officers to separate him from the crowd, despite no violence on the part of marchers. The Commissioner of the Met Police then boasted to pro-Israel groups about his repression of Palestine protest.

Those who are able to join the pepaceful protest are invited to do so.

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