Exclusive: documents seem to show embassy officials pressing attorney general’s office over Palestine Action protesters
deciding that protesters accused of “significant” criminal damage could not rely on human rights protectionsResponding to the FoI request, the AGO justified the redactions, saying disclosure “would be likely to prejudice the UK’s relations with Israel”.
Palestine Action is an activist group that primarily targets the UK factories of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.like environmental protesters , been convicted in cases similar to those they had been acquitted for in the past with human rights defences. Palestine Action’s lawyer, Lydia Dagostino, the director of Kellys solicitors, said: “The disclosure raises a number of questions, not least whether this meeting was about the direct action group Palestine Action. There clearly needs to be further investigations as to the extent to which there’s been any attempt by any representatives from the Israeli embassy to influence cases involving activists.
In February this year, there was correspondence between embassy officials and Wilson about private arrests in the UK for alleged war crimes. Again, the details of the Israeli request were redacted, but in the past
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