Gaza Solidarity has confirmed with 'corporate communications' at Lancashire Police that they have until 9.00pm today to hold the three persons still in detention after the nine arrests on Friday last week.
A statement from the police will be released later this afternoon or into the early evening. The vehicles they were searching have all been cleared and nothing has been disclosed to the press on the house searches that were conducted in Burnley.
Apparently no one has the slightest inkling what's going on, or rather, in the case of the authorities, what the story is going to be. In fact the Lancashire police spokeswoman says there is a meeting going on right now, with her boss and others, presumably to work out the plot line.
Suffice to say, if the counter-terrorism unit thought they had something it would have been leaked to their friends in the gutter press by now.
This whole episode has been yet another blatant attempt to scare people in the Muslim community away from becoming politically active. The message is: if you donate and actively support a humanitarian convoy for Palestine you could end being a 'terror suspect'.
The best answer to this state repression is to become even more active and organised - it's the best form of defence. The drivers should be released immediately to rejoin the humanitarian aid convoy (now in Morocco) for Gaza.
A statement from the police will be released later this afternoon or into the early evening. The vehicles they were searching have all been cleared and nothing has been disclosed to the press on the house searches that were conducted in Burnley.
Apparently no one has the slightest inkling what's going on, or rather, in the case of the authorities, what the story is going to be. In fact the Lancashire police spokeswoman says there is a meeting going on right now, with her boss and others, presumably to work out the plot line.
Suffice to say, if the counter-terrorism unit thought they had something it would have been leaked to their friends in the gutter press by now.
This whole episode has been yet another blatant attempt to scare people in the Muslim community away from becoming politically active. The message is: if you donate and actively support a humanitarian convoy for Palestine you could end being a 'terror suspect'.
The best answer to this state repression is to become even more active and organised - it's the best form of defence. The drivers should be released immediately to rejoin the humanitarian aid convoy (now in Morocco) for Gaza.
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