(Middle East Eye) The Metropolitan Police has summoned one of the key organisers of the UK’s Palestine solidarity protests over an alleged public order breach that took place at a rally earlier this year.
Raghad Altikriti, who chairs the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), told Middle East Eye that she received a letter from the police requesting she attend a formal interview on Wednesday over a protest held in London on 18 January.
Altikriti is one of several individuals who have been summoned by police over alleged public order offences. Letters were also issued to Stop the War Coalition officers Lindsey German, Alex Kenny and Andrew Murray, and Friends of Al-Aqsa chair Ismail Patel.
Altikriti described the upcoming police interview as an “act of intimidation” and claimed it was aimed at “making it difficult for people to speak out against this genocide.”
