The world looks back on the actions of suffragettes, civil rights leaders and other protesters as a necessary good – even when the actions they took for change were illegal at the time.

But the mainly peaceful actions taken by those who support Palestine Action, a group formed in 2020 to ‘end Israeli apartheid’ in Gaza, have been met with mass arrests after it was deemed a proscribed terror group in the UK.

Hundreds of demonstrators recently sat down quietly in Parliament Square, holding placards reading: ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.’

Charlie Kimber, 68, was arrested in this protest and charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act.

He has been attending protests since the 1970s and says that policing of even peaceful protests has worsened in his lifetime.

He says h

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