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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - A protester is taken away by police officers at a ‘Lift The Ban’ demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, calling for the recently imposed ban to be lifted, in London October 4, 2025. — AFP pic
LONDON, Oct 5 — UK police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community.
The government initiative follows Thursday’s deadly knife and car-ramming attack on a synagogue in the northwestern city of Manchester.
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London went ahead yesterday despite pleas from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the capital’s Metropolitan Police to delay it.
The government said police would be authorised to consider the “cumulative impact” of protests when deciding to impose limits on protesters.
The new powers would be “brought forward as soon as possible”, it said in a statement.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said today the government would now also review all protest legislation.
“The right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country. However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear, Mahmood said in the statement.
Over 1,000 people took part in yesterday’s protest in London’s Trafalgar Square with nearly 500 people arrested for showing supporting for the banned Palestine Action campaign group.
Organisers rejected calls not to gather saying they “stood in solidarity” with the Jewish community over the Manchester attack but that “cancelling peaceful protests lets terror win”.
A day earlier Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was booed at a vigil for the Jewish victims of the synagogue attack.
“Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes,” Mahmood said.
“This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community, which has been expressed to me on many occasions in these recent difficult days,” she added.
Police shot dead assailant Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old UK citizen of Syrian descent, within minutes of the alarm being raised on Thursday.
One person died in the attack outside the synagogue in north Manchester. Another died after suffering a fatal gunshot, believed by police to have been fired by armed officers as they tackled Shamie.
Three people who were seriously injured remain in hospital, including one who is also believed to have been accidentally hit by police fire.
Counter terrorism police have been granted more time to detain four people arrested on suspicion of terrorism-linked offences over the incident.
The UK has seen repeated pro-Palestinian demonstrations since the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s retaliatory action in Gaza in which tens of thousands have died. — AFP
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