Update 8/12/23 : the Glasgow FRFI supporters have now been released from police custody. We will communicate further about next steps and a defence campaign once the charges have been confirmed.
Two supporters of Glasgow Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! were violently arrested earlier this evening, Thursday 7 December, at a protest outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow’s city centre where a Scottish Labour Party Winter Gala was taking place. Labour leader Keir Starmer travelled up from London to join the event. In the tradition of many Labour leaders, Starmer has shown his pro-Zionist credentials by ardently defending Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza. He was confronted about his failure to call for an Israeli ceasefire on the train journey by a passenger before being confronted by a large group of protestors at the station when he disembarked in Glasgow.
Meanwhile, around a hundred people gathered outside the Crowne Plaza hotel, protesting at the Labour Party’s failure to condemn Israel’s brutal war on the Palestinian people. Police pulled the FRFI supporters from the crowd and violently restrained them on the ground, searching their possessions before dragging them off to Govan police station. Many of the protestors filmed the arrests, while demanding their release, and we appeal to them to contact us with their evidence. A solicitor has been in touch with one of the arrestees. Comrades who went to the police station have been told that they will be held overnight.
Defend the right to defend Palestine. Ring Govan police station and demand the release of the two activists arrested at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Call Police Scotland on: 0141 308 1070, select Glasgow, select custody inquiry, select Govan. If you get through, please let us know via our email: 
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