Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

On Monday, the 8th of September, the government rejected calls, including from some of its own MPs,

to review the use of terrorism laws after hundreds of people were arrested at the weekend

at a demonstration in support of the band group Palestine Action.

At lunchtime yesterday, the Labour MP, Stella Creasy faced questions about whether or not

she would run to be her party's deputy leader. Within hours, she'd swapped roles

and become the cross-examiner

on her feet in the Commons,

asking an urgent question.

To ask if the Home Secretary

will make a statement

on the prescription of Palestine action

and public protest.

The new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood,

was unavailable,

and so it was the security minister Dan Jarvis,

who fielded the questions about the hundreds of people who were arrested at the weekend

at a demonstration in London in support of the band group Palestine action.

Anyone who wishes to demonstrate about the humanitarian situation in Gaza or the actions of any government,

including our own, has the absolute freedom to gather with others and voice their views,

provided that they do so within the law. But supporting Palestine and supporting a prescribed

terrorist organisation are not the same thing.

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