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‘Biased’ Met Police arrest protesters for holding image of ‘clear blue sky’
Artwork at UCL encampment

THE Metropolitan Police faces fresh claims of political bias after pro-Palestine protesters were arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding up a banner with a dove in a “clear, blue sky.”

The four activists were detained outside University College London at around 6.30pm on Saturday after rallying in solidarity with students calling for an end to Israeli-linked investments.

During police interviews, officers said the banner, depicting a dove carrying a key flying through a breach in Israel’s apartheid wall, allegedly supported the proscribed Hamas militant group because it “depicted a clear blue sky with no clouds, and on October 7 there was clear blue sky with no clouds.”

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