Six young women, including Jennifer Kennedy, were arrested by twenty police officers at the Quaker meeting house in Westminster last week.
The arrests were not related to a plot to blow up parliament or poison the water supply, but rather to a protest group called Youth Demand, which was discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.
Kennedy, a student journalist, was held incommunicado for 16 hours, preventing her from making phone calls and making any further contact with family and friends.
The police justified the raid by claiming that Youth Demand planned to “shut down London,” which has previously resulted in 10-minute blockages of individual roads.
This is a tactic used for serious organized crime, terrorism, or espionage to prevent suspects from disposing of evidence or informing other spies.
