Tag archives for Palestine Action
Local Pensioners Face 14-Year Prison Sentences
FERDUSARA ALI Two local pensioners, Nina Heaton from Hastings and Mary Law from Rother were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday (30 July), under Section 12 of the Terrorism…
More Palestine Protest Arrests
Seven local residents – several of them aged in their 70s or 80s – were arrested on Hastings seafront under the Terrorism Act on the afternoon of Saturday 11 April.…
News in brief
TERRORISM SUSPECTS WELCOME COURT RULING The High Court ruling over the legality of banning Palestine Action has been welcomed by local protestors. Gabriel Carlyle, arrested in Parliament Square in July…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter Palestine Action Ban Dear HIP, We the undersigned, residents of Hastings, Rye and St Leonards, have all been arrested under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act, for publicly displaying signs bearing…
More Palestine Action Arrests
Seven more residents of Hastings and Bexhill have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for carrying placards supporting the banned protest organisation Palestine Action. Five – including two over the…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter Graphically Inaccurate Dear HIP Splashing a huge graph supplied by Electoral Calculus for the Ashdown & Conquest and Hastings by-election (By-Election Battle Looms in HIP 288) is pretty reckless.…
Gaza Campaigner Pleads Not Guilty
Hastings Gaza campaigner Gabriel Carlyle has pleaded not guilty to an alleged terrorist offence in Parliament Square on 5 July. He was arrested for holding up a placard which read:…
A Paradox for All to See
ROD WEBB The National March for Palestine in London on 9 August was clearly going to be different from others. Alongside this march, over 500 people had pledged to defy…
The Big One
ROD WEBB After a brief period of protesting with XR, I began to feel my age and have since restricted my activism to more low-key community engagement issues, like working…