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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Met police agree to pay £7,500 to woman arrested over Gaza protest placard

Aisha Jung holding a sign saying: 'Massacring kids, ethnic cleansing, occupation & blockade, cutting off vital resources, collective punishment.'
Aisha Jung holding her sign at a different demonstration. Photograph: Supplied

The Metropolitan police have agreed to pay £7,500 in damages to a woman arrested at a Gaza protest for holding up a placard that said: “Apartheid Israel, what a cuntry.”

Aisha Jung, 53, from south London, was with her husband and two of her sons, aged 10 and 11, when police arrested her at the November 2023 demonstration in Trafalgar Square, central London, telling her that the sign could be considered offensive.

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