Three people who allegedly called for an “intifada” have been charged with stirring up racial hatred during a protest in Westminster last month.
Azza Zaki, 60, Haya Adam, 21, and Abdallah Alanzi, 24, have been charged in relation to an organised protest outside the Ministry of Justice in Petty France on December 17, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed.
They are each charged with one count of using threatening words and behaviour when racial hatred was likely to be stirred up.
The arrests were made on the same day that London’s Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police announced that people chanting “globalise the intifada”, holding placards bearing that slogan, or using the phrase in a “targeted way” that at future protests “should expect the Met and GMP to take action”.
That development came days after the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack targeting Jewish people, and in the wake of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue terror attack which resulted in two deaths.
The CPS said: “Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings.
“We have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police Service as they carried out their investigation.”
The Met said its Public Order Crime team “considered not just that specific chant [about an intifada] but other chanting heard during the course of the protest” in its investigation.
“The charges that have been authorised reflect the totality of the alleged offending on that evening,” it added.
No further action will be taken against a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on the same night, the Met confirmed.
The defendants will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on February 23.
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