{ "$schema": "uk-palestine-direct-action-cases/supplementary-1.0", "supplementary_metadata": { "target_dataset": "palestine-action-uk-cases.json", "description": "Supplementary dataset extracting cases, complete defendant rosters, corporate severance outcomes, and judicial interference records documented in the CAGE International dossier[cite: 2, 3].", "scope": "Fills unindexed cases, missing participant names, FOI lobbying records, and post-proscription civil disobedience milestones[cite: 3]." }, "new_cases": [ { "id": "moog-aircraft-wolverhampton", "nickname": "Moog Aircraft Group Raid", "category": "direct_action_unaffiliated", "action_dates": ["2025-08-26"], "location": "Moog Aircraft Group, Wolverhampton", "target": "Moog Aircraft Group (alleged supplier of military equipment to Hatzerim airbase for Israeli M-346 Lavi jet pilot training)[cite: 44]", "group": "Palestinian Martyrs for Justice[cite: 44]", "action_details": { "summary": "Vehicle crashed through facility gates, red flares lit, and roof occupied[cite: 44]. Activists wore T-shirts depicting deceased Palestinians (Hossam Shabat, Refaat Alareer, Adnan al-Bursh, and Raghd al-Jabri)[cite: 44].", "damage": "Significant damage to skylights and solar panels[cite: 44]" }, "legal_proceedings": { "arrests": 4, "police_force": "Staffordshire Police[cite: 44]", "charges": "Criminal damage[cite: 44]", "custody_status": "Remanded in custody awaiting trial[cite: 44]", "sentencing_enhancement": "Terrorism connection attached under counter-terror sentencing provisions[cite: 44]" }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, p. 44", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" } ] }, { "id": "elbit-bristol-hq-lockdown-2024", "nickname": "Elbit Bristol HQ Community Blockade", "category": "action", "action_dates": ["2024-01-18"], "location": "Elbit Systems UK Headquarters, Aztec West, Bristol (leased from Somerset Council)[cite: 25]", "target": "Elbit Systems UK main operational headquarters[cite: 25]", "coalition": ["Palestine Action", "Rise Up for Palestine[cite: 25]"], "action_details": { "summary": "Four Palestine Action activists locked on to each other, surrounded by dozens of local community activists to immobilise the sole site entrance[cite: 25].", "context": "Mounted during ongoing operations in Gaza where Elbit supplies 85% of drone and land-based equipment[cite: 25]." }, "legal_proceedings": { "arrests": "None recorded in dossier[cite: 25]" }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, p. 25", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" } ] }, { "id": "elbit-aztec-west-july-2025", "nickname": "Aztec West Pre-Proscription Blockade", "category": "action", "action_dates": ["2025-07-01"], "location": "Elbit Systems UK, Aztec West, Bristol[cite: 33]", "target": "Elbit Systems UK entrance[cite: 33]", "action_details": { "summary": "Blockade of the facility entrance and application of red paint symbolising bloodshed, occurring days prior to statutory proscription[cite: 33]." }, "legal_proceedings": { "arrests": 2, "arrestees": "A 30-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man[cite: 33]", "charges": "Suspicion of criminal damage[cite: 33]" }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, p. 33", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" }, { "outlet": "GB News", "title": "Palestine Action blockades UK defence contractor and occupies rooftop", "url": "https://www.gbnews.com/news/palestine-action-blockade-uk-defence-contractor-suffolk-bristol", "date": "2025-07-01" } ] }, { "id": "hydrafeed-severance", "nickname": "Hydrafeed Supply-Chain Campaign", "category": "supply_chain_impact", "action_dates": ["2024-06-17", "2024-11-14"], "location": "Hydrafeed production facilities & Instro Precision site, Kent[cite: 52]", "target": "Hydrafeed (supplier of CNC machine tools to Elbit Systems)[cite: 52]", "action_details": { "discovery": "Palestine Action activists identified and dismantled Hydrafeed machinery inside Instro Precision during the 17 June 2024 raid[cite: 52].", "direct_action": "Activists abseiled inside Hydrafeed premises, dismantled manufacturing machinery, smashed front doors, and sprayed red paint[cite: 52]." }, "outcome": { "date": "2024-11-14", "result": "Hydrafeed officially notified Palestine Action by email confirming the complete termination of all business ties with Elbit Systems and subsidiaries[cite: 52]." }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, p. 52", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" } ] }, { "id": "mod-watchkeeper-scrapping", "nickname": "Watchkeeper Programme Termination", "category": "policy_contract_impact", "action_dates": ["2024-11-22"], "location": "Ministry of Defence / UAV Tactical Systems, Leicester[cite: 51]", "target": "Elbit Systems UK / U-TacS Watchkeeper WK450 contract[cite: 51]", "action_details": { "summary": "UK Ministry of Defence scrapped its Watchkeeper drone programme with Elbit subsidiary U-TacS, cancelling a contract valued at over £2.1 billion[cite: 51].", "context": "Attributed by organizers to sustained direct action at Meridian Business Park since May 2021; government cited decommissioning of older models despite an earlier projected 2042 out-of-service timeline[cite: 51, 52]." }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, pp. 51-52", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" } ] }, { "id": "banksy-rcj-mural", "nickname": "Banksy Royal Courts of Justice Mural", "category": "artistic_intervention", "action_dates": ["2025-09-08"], "location": "Exterior wall, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London[cite: 47]", "subject": "Depiction of a judge in robes striking a demonstrator holding a blood-stained protest placard with a gavel[cite: 47]", "context": "Visual commentary on state prosecutions and counter-terrorism arrests targeting Palestine Action and Defend Our Juries[cite: 47].", "disposition": { "immediate_action": "Covered with security hoardings and barriers on the day of discovery[cite: 47].", "removal_date": "2025-09-10", "removal_rationale": "Authorities removed the mural citing statutory requirements to maintain the character of the Grade I listed courthouse[cite: 47]." }, "sources": [ { "outlet": "CAGE International", "title": "Putting Bodies on the Line, p. 47", "kind": "ngo_dossier", "date": "2025-11-28" } ] } ], "case_enrichments": { "filton": { "verified_complete_24_defendants": [ "Louis Adams[cite: 36]", "Kamran Ahmed[cite: 36]", "Harland Archer[cite: 36]", "Yulia Brigadirova[cite: 36]", "Finn Collins[cite: 36]", "Samuel Corner[cite: 36]", "Hannah Davidson[cite: 36]", "Jordan Devlin[cite: 36]", "Zahra Farooque[cite: 36]", "Charlotte Head[cite: 36]", "Aleksandra Herbich[cite: 36]", "Teuta Hoxha[cite: 36]", "Moiz Ibrahim[cite: 36]", "Leona Kamio[cite: 36]", "Salaam Mahmood[cite: 36]", "Sean Middlebrough[cite: 36]", "Liam Mullany[cite: 36]", "Heba Muraisi[cite: 36]", "Madeleine Norman[cite: 36]", "William Plastow[cite: 36]", "Fatema Zainab Rajwani[cite: 36]", "Zoe Rogers[cite: 36]", "Qesser Zuhrah[cite: 36]", "Ian Sanders[cite: 36]" ], "procedural_escalations": { "dawn_raids_2024_11_19": { "arrests_added": 11, "total_detained_at_point": 18, "conditions": "Armed counter-terror dawn raids involving family detention, handcuffs, and blanket denial of bail[cite: 34, 35]." }, "july_2025_expansion": { "arrests_added": 6, "border_apprehensions": "Two individuals arrested upon re-entering Britain, bringing total indicted cohort to 24[cite: 36]." }, "international_human_rights_interventions": "United Nations special communication sent to the UK Government condemning the use of counter-terror detention and incommunicado holding as potentially amounting to enforced disappearance[cite: 34].", "target_facility_specifications": "Site marketed as a £35m research and development centre opened in June 2023 with Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in attendance; activists uncovered active assembly of armed quadcopter drones[cite: 34]." } }, "teledyne-shipley-may-2024": { "verified_defendants": [ { "name": "Francesca Nadin", "age": 39, "pretrial_status": "Remanded in custody for 9 months due to prior bail conditions[cite: 26]", "disposition": "Convicted by jury; suspended sentence on 2025-09-06[cite: 26]" }, { "name": "Ricky Southall", "age": 33, "disposition": "Convicted by jury; suspended sentence on 2025-09-06[cite: 26]" }, { "name": "Serena Fenton", "age": 57, "disposition": "Convicted by jury; suspended sentence on 2025-09-06[cite: 26]" }, { "name": "Amareen Afzal", "age": 33, "disposition": "Convicted by jury; community order on 2025-09-06[cite: 26]" } ], "charges_adjudicated": "Possessing articles with intent to cause criminal damage (valued at approximately £60,000)[cite: 26]." }, "thales-five": { "sentencing_modifications": { "appellate_reductions": { "court": "High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh[cite: 22]", "order_date": "2024-11-05", "defendants": ["Stuart Bretherton", "Calum Lacy[cite: 22]"], "adjustment": "Custodial term reduced from 12 months to 10 months[cite: 22]" }, "tag_releases": { "release_date": "2024-11-18", "defendants": ["Eva Simmons", "Erica Hygate[cite: 22]"], "mechanism": "Released under electronic monitoring tag conditions following approximately 3 months served[cite: 22]" } } }, "kingsway-five": { "defendant_demographics": [ {"name": "Doone Stormonth Darling", "age": 26[cite: 20]}, {"name": "Flora Thomas", "age": 26[cite: 20]}, {"name": "Joley Thomas", "age": 29[cite: 20]}, {"name": "Anthony Bardos", "age": 56[cite: 20]}, {"name": "Jocelyn Cooney", "age": 25[cite: 20]} ], "ancillary_state_measures": { "blackmail_arrest": "Co-founder Richard Barnard arrested on suspicion of blackmail outside his home, detained 24 hours at Fresh Wharf Custody Base prior to trial[cite: 19].", "schedule_7_stops": "Barnard and Huda Ammori detained and interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in November 2020; both arrested after refusing to disclose digital device passwords[cite: 20]." } }, "defend-our-juries": { "granular_chronology": [ { "date": "2025-07-05", "location": "Parliament Square, London", "arrests": 29, "charged_individuals": [ {"name": "Jeremy Shippam", "age": 71, "location": "Yapton, West Sussex[cite: 45, 47]"}, {"name": "Judit Murray", "age": 71, "location": "West Ewell, Surrey[cite: 45, 47]"}, {"name": "Fiona Maclean", "age": 53, "location": "Hackney, London[cite: 45, 47]"} ], "procedural_milestone": "Plead not guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 2025-09-16 before Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring; unconditional bail granted[cite: 47]." }, { "date": "2025-07-12", "location": "Nationwide", "arrests": 70, "geographic_breakdown": { "London_Met": 41, "Cardiff_BBC": 13, "Manchester_St_Peters_Square": 16, "Leeds": 1 }[cite: 45] }, { "date": "2025-07-19", "location": "Nationwide", "arrests": 104, "geographic_breakdown": { "Parliament_Square": 55, "PSC_March_Whitehall": 9, "Manchester": 18, "Bristol": 17, "Truro_Cathedral_Cornwall": 8 }[cite: 45] }, { "date": "2025-08-09", "location": "Parliament Square, London", "arrests": 500, "notable_arrestees": [ "Moazzam Begg (Senior Director of CAGE International)[cite: 45, 46]", "Mike Higgins (62-year-old blind and disabled activist)[cite: 46, 47]" ] }, { "date": "2025-08-17", "location": "City Hall, St Peters Street, Norwich", "arrests": 13, "custody": "5 held at Wymondham investigation centre; 8 identified for postal requisition[cite: 46]" }, { "date": "2025-09-01", "location": "London", "legal_notice": "47 individuals from the 19 July protest served Postal Charge Requisitions; London charged total reached 114[cite: 46]." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "location": "London, Cumbria, Edinburgh, Barnsley, Oban", "operation": "Counter-terror raids under Section 12 Terrorism Act 2000 (meeting management/addressing; up to 14 years imprisonment)[cite: 46, 47]", "charged_organisers": [ {"name": "Tim Crosland", "age": 55, "charges": "3 counts addressing, 3 counts assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "Patrick Friend", "age": 26, "charges": "3 counts addressing, 3 counts assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "Gwen Harrison", "age": 48, "charges": "4 counts addressing, 4 counts assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "David Nixon", "age": 39, "charges": "5 counts managing, 1 addressing, 4 assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "Dawn Manners", "age": 61, "charges": "3 counts managing, 2 addressing, 2 assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "Melanie Griffith", "age": 62, "charges": "7 counts addressing, 4 assisting arranging[cite: 46]"}, {"name": "Unnamed individual", "age": 59, "location": "Arrested on warrant in Oban, Scotland[cite: 46]"} ] }, { "date": "2025-09-06", "location": "Parliament Square, London; Belfast; Edinburgh", "arrests": 900, "notable_arrestees": [ "Reverend Sue Parfitt (83-year-old Anglican priest)[cite: 47]", "RAF disabled veteran[cite: 47]", "NHS midwife and healthcare practitioners[cite: 47]" ], "ancillary_arrests": "33 for alleged police assault and public order offences[cite: 47]", "police_scotland_actions": "Two men aged 67 and 82 charged with terror offences; one man aged 63 charged with hate crime[cite: 47]" }, { "date": "2025-09-29", "location": "Labour Party Conference, Wheel of Liverpool", "arrests": 66, "disposition": "64 bailed on terror-support suspicion; 2 de-arrested; eldest arrestee aged 83[cite: 48]" }, { "date": "2025-10-04", "location": "Central London / Westminster Bridge", "arrests": 492, "demographics": "Youngest arrestee aged 18; oldest aged 89[cite: 48]", "notable_arrestees": [ "Elizabeth Morley (79, daughter of a Holocaust survivor)[cite: 48]", "Muhammad Rabbani (Managing Director of CAGE International)[cite: 48]" ], "custody_status": "297 detained overnight in police cells; remaining bailed[cite: 48]" } ] } }, "judicial_interference_and_lobbying_matrix": [ { "date": "2020-08-25", "participants": [ "Dominic Raab (UK Foreign Secretary)[cite: 38]", "Orit Farkash-Hacohen (Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs)[cite: 38]" ], "context": "Meeting following repeated raids on Elbit Holborn offices[cite: 38].", "disclosed_content": "Farkash-Hacohen demanded British intervention against the delegitimisation campaign targeting Elbit Systems[cite: 38]; Raab affirmed the UK commitment to stopping such actions and protecting Israeli corporate operations[cite: 38]." }, { "date": "2022-03-02", "participants": [ "Priti Patel (Home Secretary)[cite: 39]", "Martin Fausset (CEO, Elbit Systems UK)[cite: 39]", "Shaun Hipgrave (Director, Homeland Security Group)[cite: 39]", "Michael Stewart (Director of Prevent)[cite: 39]" ], "context": "Official Home Office ministerial meeting on protests and industrial security[cite: 39].", "disclosed_content": "Home Office reassured Elbit of action to progress activists through the criminal justice system[cite: 39]; Patel privately signaled intent to ensure severe remand and custodial sentences for direct actionists[cite: 33]." }, { "date": "2022-05", "participants": [ "Douglas Wilson (Director, Attorney General's Office)[cite: 39]", "Representatives of the Israeli Embassy in London[cite: 39]" ], "context": "Discussions regarding prosecution policies, protest legislation, and appellate references[cite: 39, 40].", "disclosed_content": "Briefings on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill lock-on provisions and Attorney General powers to refer criminal damage protest defences to the Court of Appeal[cite: 39, 40]; invitation extended to Lionel Idan (Chief Crown Prosecutor) for an Israeli legal delegation[cite: 40]." }, { "date": "2022-11", "case_affected": "Kingsway 5 trial (Southwark Crown Court)[cite: 40]", "actors": [ "My Business Counsel (private legal firm representing Elbit Systems)[cite: 40]", "Crown Prosecution Service[cite: 40]" ], "disclosed_incident": "A corporate trainee barrister attending court emailed the CPS seeking to retract agreed facts describing Elbit's weapons deployment in Gaza[cite: 40]. Defense solicitors were inadvertently copied, resulting in the courtroom being cleared and the legal observer signing a statement acknowledging potential perversion of the course of justice[cite: 40]." }, { "date": "2023-04-19", "participants": [ "Chris Philp (Minister for Policing)[cite: 40]", "Chief Constable Chris Noble (Staffordshire Police)[cite: 40]", "Kelby Halmes (Director, Attorney General's Office; listed on behalf of CPS)[cite: 40]", "National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC)[cite: 40]", "Elbit Systems UK representatives[cite: 40]", "Thales representatives[cite: 40]" ], "context": "Ministerial roundtable to reassure arms manufacturers over direct action disruption[cite: 40].", "disclosed_content": "Discussions acknowledging jury acquittals and evaluating proscription thresholds under terrorism legislation[cite: 40, 41]." }, { "date": "2023-04-28", "participants": [ "Chris Philp (Policing Minister)[cite: 41, 42]", "Home Office Team[cite: 42]", "Deputy Chief Constable, Leicestershire Police[cite: 42]" ], "context": "Briefing held at 17:00 ahead of the planned mass camp at U-TacS drone factory in Leicester[cite: 41, 42].", "disclosed_content": "Ministerial directive urging proactive police intervention, lobbying for remand of arrestees, pushing social media disruption on Meta/Instagram, and revealing Elbit UK maintains an internal intelligence cell sharing fortnightly briefings with police forces[cite: 42]." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "participants": [ "Nicola Smith (Head of International Law and National Security, AGO)[cite: 42]", "Douglas Wilson (AGO)[cite: 42]", "Daniela Ekstein (Deputy Israeli Ambassador)[cite: 42]", "Yosef (Yossi) Zilberman (Counsellor of Political Affairs, Israeli Embassy)[cite: 42]" ], "context": "Follow-up communication following an embassy meeting on 28 August 2024[cite: 42].", "disclosed_content": "Email sent with subject heading 'Contacts CPS/SO15', transmitting contact directories for the Crown Prosecution Service and the Counter Terrorism Command to Israeli diplomatic personnel[cite: 42]." } ] }