Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action ‘organisers’ for Israeli arms factory raid

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After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday. It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the defendants. An eighth defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of criminal damage by a majority of nine to one jurors. Last month, the jury acquitted one of the defendants, Will Plastow, of violent disorder over a lack of…

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