Greta Thunberg arrested in London supporting pro-Palestinian protesters on hunger strike
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in central London while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations.
The protest group Prisoners for Palestine on Tuesday shared a video showing the 22-year-old Swede holding a sign supporting the hunger strikers and their organisation, known as Palestine Action.
The British Government earlier this year banned Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
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Prisoners for Palestine says they targeted the insurer because it supports the Israel-linked defence firm Elbit Systems.
City of London police said a man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.
A third woman was later arrested on suspicion of supporting a banned organisation.
British police generally do not identify suspects by their names prior to their being charged.
Eight Palestine Action members have staged a hunger strike to protest their detention without bail as they await trial on a variety of charges related to earlier protests around the country.
The first two prisoners to join the protest have now been on hunger strike for 52 days and are at a “critical stage, where death is a real possibility,” Prisoners for Palestine said in a statement.
The British Government has so far refused to intervene in the judicial process, saying questions about bail and detention are matters for the courts to decide.
