Every factual claim in the brochure traces to something on this page. Political lean is flagged where it matters — a citation list that mixes campaign sites and wire copy without labelling them gets attacked as cherry-picked, and rightly so.
Nobody in the Barclays case has been sentenced. Sentencing is listed for September 2026. The defence is arguing the damage was not sufficiently serious to meet the s.1 Terrorism Act 2000 test, and that argument may succeed. Any material that says these five have been sentenced as terrorists is wrong, and being wrong is how a campaign gets dismissed.
The proscription is currently lawful. The High Court ruled it unlawful in February 2026; the Court of Appeal reversed that on 15 June 2026. Permission to appeal to the Supreme Court is being sought. Material claiming the courts struck the ban down is out of date.
Five defendants — Brendon O’Hagan and Mohammed Malik, both 28; Amanda Kelly and Hmeera Atiqnisar, both 31; and Alma Yaniv, 70 — convicted of criminal damage at Preston Crown Court over an August 2024 action at a Barclays branch in Burnley. The CPS applied for a “terrorist connection” finding only after the trial had concluded.
Twenty-five people charged over an August 2024 action at Elbit Systems’ Filton site near Bristol, approximately £1.2m damage, split across multiple trials. Six acquitted of aggravated burglary in February 2026 with a hung jury on criminal damage; four convicted at retrial in May 2026; sentenced 12 June 2026 by Justice Jeremy Johnson with a “terrorist connection” finding — the first ever applied to protest criminal damage in the UK. Three further trials run into 2027.
Palestine Action proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 in July 2025 — the first such designation for a direct-action protest group. Huda Ammori’s challenge succeeded at the High Court in February 2026 and was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June 2026. Home Secretary v Ammori [2026] EWCA Civ 1721
Eight remand prisoners from the Filton and RAF Brize Norton cases began an open-ended hunger strike on 2 November 2025 — the largest in UK prisons since 1981. Four refused food for up to 73 days. Their demands included bail, an end to correspondence censorship, the right to a fair trial, dropping the terrorist-connection claim, de-proscription, and the closure of Elbit’s UK operations. Bail was granted on 20 February 2026. The Justice Secretary declined throughout to meet their representatives.
A police lieutenant was shot in the neck at Prairieland. Benjamin Song fired the weapon and received 100 years. Do not place that case alongside spray paint on a bank and imply equivalence — one sentence from a hostile reader destroys the whole argument.
The honest parallel is not equivalent conduct. It is the same machinery reaching people at the edges: material support, obstruction, terrorist connection. Anchor on Sanchez Estrada, who moved a box of pamphlets and was not present at the protest.
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