UK arrests peace activist Sarah Wilkinson

 Twelve police officers from the UK’s counter terrorism unit raided the home of pro-Palestine activist Sarah Wilkinson and detained her yesterday.

According to her son Jack, police officers entered the property at 7.30am, some were in plain clothes from the counter terrorism police. “They said she was under arrest for “content that she has posted online.” Her house is being raided & they have seized all her electronic devices.”

He said she was subsequently denied bail.

Wilkinson has been an outspoken critic of the UK’s support for Israel during its ongoing genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza.

MENA Uncensored, for whom Wilkinson worked as a roving reporter, wrote in a post on X following news of her arrest: “We hold the anti-media British government full[y] responsibility of this stupid act of intimidating and oppressing journalists as well as human rights activist in favor of the israeli occupation entity, and we demand that this zionist-run puppet British government releases our reporter Sarah Wilkinson immediately.”

Her arrest comes just a week after journalist Richard Medhurst was interrogated by UK police under the Terrorism Act at Heathrow Airport and held for almost 24 hours.

While Palestine Action’s co-founder, Richard Barnard, is facing three charges for two speeches and is accused of supporting a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act and encouraging “criminal activity”.

Critics have accused the new British government of imposing a “new wave of authoritarianism in the UK”.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240830-uk-arrests-peace-activist-sarah-wilkinson/