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UK police detain 94-year-old Jewish lawyer Margaret Owen at Palestine protest
Human rights lawyer Margaret Owen, 94, was among 325 people detained during a protest in support of the banned Palestine Action group outside the US Embassy in London. Owen, who lost family members in the Holocaust, was also detained at a similar protest in September.
Human rights lawyer Margaret Owen, 94, who supports Palestine Action, a group banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK, was detained by police again. Owen was detained under the Terrorism Act on Saturday, October 31, during a protest outside the US Embassy in Nine Elms, southwest London, for carrying a placard that read, "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action."
Defend Our Juries, the group that organised the protest, said bystanders shouted, "There is only one Margaret Owen!" as police took her away.
Footage shared by TRT Haber shows Metropolitan Police officers holding an elderly protester wearing a pink vest by the arms and escorting her toward police vehicles.
She lost family members in the Holocaust and studied law at Cambridge
Born into a Jewish family in 1932, Owen's father was a lawyer and her mother was a doctor. Owen studied law at the University of Cambridge and worked as a barrister. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for her work on women's rights, particularly the rights of widows. Owen said that some of her family members were killed in 1941 during the Holocaust in the Paneriai Forest near Vilnius.
Owen was first detained on September 27 during a similar protest outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Speaking after that protest, during which Merseyside Police detained 82 people, Owen said, "I am proud to have finally joined the club," and added, "I'm afraid I am not the terrorist."
325 detained outside the embassy
The Metropolitan Police said a total of 325 people were detained during the protest outside the embassy, including 320 on suspicion of expressing support for a banned organisation. Police had imposed an order requiring people to disperse in the area, including around the embassy, from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. Defend Our Juries said it chose the US Embassy as the protest site to highlight US support for Israel's war in Gaza.
The UK government banned Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act in July 2025 after members of the group entered RAF Brize Norton air base and painted two military aircraft red. According to Defend Our Juries, more than 4,000 people have been detained for defying the ban since then. A legal challenge to the ban will be heard this week by the Supreme Court, the UK's highest court.
Photo: Defend Our Juries. Video: TRT Haber
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