@defendourjuries.bsky.social
Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice. We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms. www.defendourjuries.net
Each week that Palestine Action remains proscribed, a few dozen (of the more than 2700 people arrested) are summoned to plea hearings.
Some don’t attend, some refuse to plea, and some make speeches.
None have pleaded guilty.
youtu.be/62s3EZ7-FME
NON-COMPLIANT “TERRORISTS” IN COURT
“Westminster Magistrates Court faces weekly ridicule at terrorist plea hearings” @realmediapress.bsky.social
Why should anyone take the courts seriously when charged with a “terror” offence for holding a sign to oppose genocide?
realmedia.press/non-complian...
Palestine Action activist says jury verdicts were vindication of cause.
Fatema Zainab Rajwani’s comments come after she and five others were cleared of aggravated burglary over break-in at Israeli [weapons factory].
[it’s not a “defence firm” @theguardian.com]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Campaigners protest in solidarity with ‘Teledyne 4’ outside Bradford Crown Court
Defendants are on trial for the second time for alleged offences relating to a Palestine Action demonstration at the Teledyne Technologies arms factory in April 2024.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...
Lord Hain was there when the Terrorism Act was introduced, he has publicly condemned the use of this act against Palestine Action.
He fears it could be used on “all sorts of protestors” and the likes of the Suffragettes and Anti-Apartheid protesters.
“That cannot be justified”.
GOVERNMENT LIES
A clip from last night’s C4 Despatches shows that the government’s own advisor saw no evidence on claims used by Labour to proscribe Palestine Action.
Jonathan Hall KC slams the phoney accusations of an ‘Iran link’ as “nudge nudge, wink wink”.
Lift The Ban NOW
That video was an instant classic. The brave woman was having none of it!
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Wes Streeting has confessed that his government broke the law on Gaza.
He didn't mean to - but that's what he has done.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/wes-street...
Government Terrorism Advisor Casts Doubt on Palestine Action Iran Link
‘It's nudge-nudge, wink-wink.’
novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/g...
AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY
(until the Palestine Action ban is lifted)
DAY 40 - A Silent Movie Special. Performance artist Neil Goodwin is arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside the Royal Courts of Justice on November 26 alongside around 150 others.
www.defendourjuries.net
AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY
(until the Palestine Action ban is lifted)
DAY 39 - A woman is arrested outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Nov 26 during the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action
“I’m defending our very democracy”, she explains.
www.defendourjuries.net
‘What I have experienced pales in comparison with what Palestinian prisoners go through’
Palestine Action protester Zoe Rogers has no regrets after spending 18 months on remand in jail before being freed last week
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action
despite the state taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop Genocide is a crime
www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Can the UK's Palestine Action ban survive jury acquittals?
It will be “very difficult” for judges to rule that the UK Government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group was lawful, a leading expert on human rights and protest has said
www.thenational.scot/news/2583440...
After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY
(until the Palestine Action ban is lifted)
DAY 38 - A Retired Nurse arrested on Aug 9. Police swooped in at this peaceful protest and immediately arrested the Healthcare Bloc, many had not written placards when arrests began.
www.defendourjuries.net
“Great changes come about because of the extraordinary courage and personal sacrifice of ordinary people.”
Read the incredible speech from Rajiv Menon KC on behalf of the Filton6 defendant, Charlotte Head
As reported by @realmediapress.bsky.social
Thursday Jan 8th
realmedia.press/the-filton-t...
Assuming you know what took place despite not having seen all the evidence, while a jury who saw the evidence decided not to convict, is a particularly strange take.
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“Despite government efforts to prejudice this trial, citing allegations of violence to justify treating Palestine Action as ‘terrorists,’ as if they were already proved, the jury… has refused to find the defendants guilty of anything…”
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/b...
The Jury Were Right to Acquit the Palestine Action Defendants
Even before the trial began, the British government had done its utmost to prejudice the proceedings against six Palestine Action activists.
savageminds.substack.com/p/the-jury-w...
‘Monumental Victory’ after Jury Clears Palestine Action Defendants in Elbit Case
The trial occurred after the British government banned Palestine Action under terrorism legislation, a decision harshly criticized by civil liberties & human rights groups.
www.palestinechronicle.com/monumental-v...
Edinburgh Council withdraws Palestine Action motion over arrest fears
“…it has descended into a surreal conversation about what we can and cannot say within the City Chambers.”
www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/02/06/e...
Palestine Action Activists Not Guilty of Break-In at Fulton Arms Firm
Renewed calls have come to decriminalise membership of Palestine Action following six protesters being cleared of aggravated burglary…
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Justice Minister responds to Quaker concerns over Palestine Action hunger strikers
Quakers in Britain wrote to Justice Minister James Timpson after concerns were raised across the country about the well-being of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
With that comment, presumably, you were in court and privy to all to the facts and evidence in the case?
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Palestine Action’s ‘Filton 6’ cleared in ‘huge victory for moral courage in face of political pressure’
A jury has refused to convict the six activists, who broke into and disrupted operations at an Israeli arms firm in Filton
thebristolcable.org/2026/02/pale...
“If you are reading this it is because I’m dead”
“I can’t say for sure, but I imagine that my last thought – will be of the children massacred in Gaza and of the surviving Palestinians who face a terrible future.”
Rest In Peace, Carlos Hernández.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Mail claiming that Polanski “gloated” about the Filton24 verdicts…
How could he “gloat” about something that is neither his own success nor someone else’s misfortune?
Polanski is, as we are, glad to see conscience prevail in the face of genocide.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY
(until the Palestine Action ban is lifted)
DAY 37 - A woman is arrested in Parliament Square on Sept 6th.
Before being taken, she says “the government are complicit [in genocide], we should not have to do this [get arrested].”
www.defendourjuries.net
Lawyers say jury-tampering claims in Palestine Action trial ‘dangerous’ and ‘misleading’
Calls for a retrial have pointed to posters put up around the court highlighting the right of jurors to acquit on conscience… an established principle in law
www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
