The Latest Breaking News from Parliament Square

Week of ‘mass actions’ promised by Defend Our Juries, including the targeting of the Labour Annual Conference

Organisers insisted the Parliament Square rally in central London was ‘the picture of peaceful protest’.

More than 2,500 people have reportedly shown interest in taking place in the demonstration so far

Defend Our Juries is planning a protest in Parliament Square on September 6.

From a retired British colonel to a Catholic priest, half of the 532 people arrested in Parliament Square were 60 or older. Many believe they had a greater share of responsibility to take in defending the right to free speech

COMMENT: What human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger saw at the Palestine Action demonstration in Parliament Square was not public order policing – it was the suppression of lawful dissent, and the deliberate targeting of vulnerable people to send a chilling message: no cause is now safe from criminalisation

Keir Starmer’s government is treating voters with contempt. With the arrest of hundreds of protesters in London, for many, the feeling is mutual, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

London’s criminal courts have been weighed down in recent years with a deluge of cases involving protesters – slow marching, sitting in the road, glueing hands to the tarmac, being generally obstructive to the police.

It comes after the Met said policing the protest at the weekend posed ‘unrealistic’ challenges