After the jury refused to convict Sarah in her trial earlier this year in June, the CPS has insisted on a retrial despite there being no prospect of conviction and the case not being in the public interest. We demand that the Crown Prosecution Service drops all charges against Sarah and discontinues all its investigations in relation to alleged Terrorism Act offences against the other student.

Sarah, A SOAS University of London student, had been charged, and another SOAS student arrested, under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act for ‘inviting support for a proscribed organisation’ back in March of 2025.

🇵🇸 Their supposed crime was to have made speeches on behalf of the SOAS Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! society in October 2023 supporting the Palestinian right to self-determination. This is part of the intensification of suppression of free speech on the issue of Palestine.

The right to express any support for the Palestinian struggle for national liberation is at stake in this case. The alleged Terrorism offence carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison.

This calculated targeting of two young Palestine protesters is an attempt to intimidate and censor any expression of support for the Palestinian freedom struggle. It is an attack on the entire solidarity movement.

📍 United Nations General Assembly resolution 37/43 of 3 December 1982 and the Geneva Conventions Protocol 1 explicitly give the Palestinians and all oppressed peoples the right to resist their oppressors by any available means including armed struggle.

A conviction in this case would have devastating consequences for freedom of speech in Britain. It would mean that anyone expressing support for the right of oppressed peoples to resist racism, colonialism and occupation could be tried under terrorism legislation.

DEFEND THE SOAS 2!