Reports published in the British media on Tuesday showed that British Home Secretary Suella Braverman had informed senior police officials in the country in a letter that waving a Palestinian flag or singing a chant advocating freedom of Palestine from the Israeli occupation would be a criminal offense.
Braverman said waving a Palestinian flag may be deemed advocating Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which has been outlawed in Britain as a terrorist group.
“Behaviors that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism,” read her letter.
Rights campaigners and Muslims in Britain have criticized the government for the way it has restricted freedom of speech about Palestine.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed that anyone in Britain supporting Hamas would be “held to account” after the resistance groups launched an offensive into the occupied territories on October 7 to respond to the Israeli regime’s atrocities against the Palestinian people.
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