Palestine Action: five arrested in England before protest against group’s ban

Defend Our Juries confirms event will go ahead after 1,000 people pledged to take part in defiance of counter-terrorism laws

More than 1,000 people have pledged to risk arrest this Saturday at a fresh protest against a ban on the group Palestine Action, as police detained five spokespeople for the event’s organisers.

Tim Crosland, a former government lawyer who is one of the co-founders of the Defend Our Juries group, was among those arrested hours before he was due to address a press conference on Tuesday.