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Scottish Community and Activist Legal Project (SCALP)
Alternative Published Date
2025
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Type of Resource:
Report
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
64pp
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Police Scotland used “extreme violence” to protect the interests of arms companies from pro-Palestine protesters claim.
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While mainstream political rhetoric in Scotland condemned the genocide and rejected Westminster’s description of pro-Palestine marches as ‘hate marches’, the reality of policing approaches used against pro-Palestine protests in Scotland paints a very different picture.
Drawing on first-hand testimonies, legal observer notes, court records, Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and media analysis, our report reveals incidents of extreme police violence, the repeated misuse of police powers, and intimidatory and discriminatory policing. In some cases, the level of police violence used against demonstrators was described
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