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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Counter-terrorism police arrest seven in London raids connected to PKK

A small crowd in coats and scarves make V signs in front of a stack of metal barriers on a night-lit residential street
Kurdish people took to the streets to block further police operations including the unloading of police barriers after a raid on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey Green Lanes. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

UK-based Kurdish advocacy groups have condemned the arrest of seven people by counter-terrorism police in London as part of an investigation into the banned Kurdistan Workers’ party, known as the PKK.

Four men aged 23, 27, 56 and 62, and two women aged 31 and 59, were arrested at separate addresses during dawn raids in the capital on Wednesday and remain in custody, the Metropolitan police said. A 31-year-old man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in west London. All are yet to be charged.

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