Arrests following protest in Liverpool

We can confirm that officers arrested a total of 66 people during a protest in Liverpool City Centre yesterday, Sunday 28 September.

At around 2.30pm, a protest from Defend Our Juries assembled near The Wheel of Liverpool.

Some of the people in attendance displayed material in support of Palestine Action, who are a proscribed terrorism organisation.

Two people were later de-arrested.

The 64 people arrested on suspicion of displaying articles in support of a proscribed organisation udner Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were aged between 21 and 83 years.

They were taken into police custody and have now been released on bail.