INTERNAL documents suggest scores of protesters who were detained after the Palestine Action ban may have been arrested on false grounds.

A seven-page "tactics guidance" document from Counter Terrorism Policing outlines advice to police offers around cases of those suspected of showing support for the group, which was proscribed as a terror organisation earlier this year.

The document, dated August 28, was first reported by Declassified UK .

The guidance specifically states that acts such as holding placards stating "Genocide in Palestine , Time to Take Action" should not be grounds for arrest.

A Palestine demonstration in Edinburgh in July (Image: Defend Our Juries)

In the document, below an image showing one of these placards, the guidance states: "The above sign which has larg

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