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Winston Churchill statue vandalised in London: Man arrested for writing ‘Free Palestine’

A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of defacing the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, Westminster.

Police said that he is also being investigated for alleged links to the activist group Palestine Action, marking the first such arrest since the high court ruled the government’s ban on the group unlawful.

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