POLICE said 25 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act at a protest in Birmingham where “a number of people carried placards expressing support for Palestine Action”.

The arrests were made at a demonstration on Saturday organised by Defend Our Juries at Chamberlain Square in the city centre, West Midlands Police said.

Officers also arrested 30 people on suspicion of terror offences at a protest in Bristol, and 10 in Norwich.

Defend Our Juries organised demonstrations in 10 British towns and cities on Saturday afternoon, to protest “against our Government’s complicity in genocide and against the ban on Palestine Action ”.

Saturday made its campaign the “most widespread wave of civil disobedience in modern UK history” with 636 arrests made in its 12 day duration, the UK protest

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