“It was like a disappearance,” says Claire Hinchcliffe, describing th... https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/78fd6152-3af9-431f-90b2-93217364e780 “It was like a disappearance,” says Claire Hinchcliffe, describing the moment her daughter Zoe vanished into a counter-terrorism detention suite without a phone call or charge. “This is something you’d see in a dictatorship.” Activists from Palestine Action are facing what lawyers and UN experts describe as an unprecedented escalation in state repression - held on remand for months, denied bail, and charged under laws typically reserved for terrorism. “I spent a month in prison and a year under house arrest,” said Ronny, an Israeli dissident. “I had to change my whole reality.” Fran, another activist, said she was held for nine months without trial. “They completely bypassed the usual legal steps just to make an example of me.” As the UK government moves to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, MEE speaks to those targeted for protesting against Israel’s arms industry - and asks what this means for the future of civil dissent in Britain. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:38:29 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube “It was like a disappearance,” says Claire Hinchcliffe, describing th... https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/78fd6152-3af9-431f-90b2-93217364e780 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.