Activists guilty over London Palestine protest breach
BBC • • world
Key Points:
- Benjamin Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and Christopher Nineham, vice chairman of the Stop the War Coalition, were found guilty of breaching protest conditions imposed by the Metropolitan Police.
- The police had restricted a march from gathering near a central London synagogue to protect the safety of the Jewish community.
- On 18 January last year, Jamal and Nineham knowingly violated these restrictions by marching toward the BBC headquarters in Portland Place.
- Jamal was additionally convicted of inciting other protesters to breach the police conditions.
- The court's verdict was delivered in Westminster Magistrates' Court before a public gallery that included supporters such as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
