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MPs urge Home Office to free embassy-protest mob

April 8, 2010 11:57
Petition: members of the Stop the War Coalition protest outside the Home Office headquarters

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

1 min read

Supporters of pro-Palestinian demonstrators jailed after violent protests outside the Israeli embassy last year have stepped up their campaign against the sentences.

A small group of Stop the War Coalition members protested outside the Home Office last week, demanding that the remaining charges against defendants be dropped.

MPs George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn, accompanied by representatives from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and British Muslim Initiative, delivered a 1,200-name petition.

Their action follows a meeting last month at which the organisation claimed the sentences were a result of "state racism" against Muslims.