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Ben Quinn

Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police

Laura Murton
Police told Laura Murton she would be arrested unless she provided her name and address. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying “Free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” is taking legal action against the police force involved.

Armed police told Laura Murton, 42, that her demonstration in Canterbury, Kent, last month expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which had been banned under terrorism legislation earlier in July.

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