Screenwriter Paul Laverty arrested at Palestine protest in Edinburgh
by Libby Brooks from on (#6ZJ2N)
Ken Loach collaborator was allegedly wearing a T-shirt that referenced banned group Palestine Action
The award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested in Edinburgh for wearing a T-shirt that allegedly referenced the proscribed protest group Palestine Action.
Laverty was attending a protest outside St Leonard's police station in the city centre to support Moira McFarlane, a member of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was due to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt with the words: Genocide in Palestine, time to take Action".
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