AC-2025-LON-002122 - [2025] EWHC 2013 (Admin)

In addition to the evidence before me at the interim relief hearing, the claimant relies on additional evidence about what has happened since. I have read this evidence, but do not record or summarise it here. It includes examples of cases where individuals have been subjected to police action for expressing various kinds of support for the Palestinian cause. In some cases, these expressions of support have been taken as giving rise to suspicion that an offence has been committed, generally under ss. 12 or 13 of the 2000 Act.

There is also evidence about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. It is not necessary to say more about this here. It was described in vivid terms in a joint statement on 21 July 2025 by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, together with the Foreign Ministers of 27 other countries (“The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths…”).