Filton 24 organiser arrested again

Police have today, 11 April 2026, arrested Lisa Minerva Luxx under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Luxx is a spokesperson for the ‘Filton 24 Defence Committee’ working to free Palestine Action activists imprisoned without trial for almost two years.

Filton 24 organiser arrested

The High Court ruled the government’s terrorism ban on Palestine Action unlawful. The government is appealing the decision, but the Filton 24 prisoners were arrested before the ban and are not charged with terrorism offences. Several have been acquitted and were granted bail while the Starmer regime tries to re-prosecute. At least one, former hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah, was rearrested shortly after being granted bail.

The Filton 24 ‘Defend and Mobilise’ support group said:

This state harassment comes just two days before the retrial of six of the Filton24 defendants.

Being detained under Schedule 7 means counter-terror police can interrogate for hours, without the right to say ‘no comment’.

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The circumstances of the arrest have not been confirmed. However, it appears that Luxx was arrested while entering or leaving the UK. The ‘counterterrorism policing’ website says of Schedule 7:

Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 provides police officers with unique powers to examine people who pass through the United Kingdom’s borders. It allows them to stop, question and when necessary, search and detain individuals and goods travelling through the UK’s borders to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

The Starmer government has frequently used Schedule 7 against journalists and others to interrogate them without legal representation and because of its provisions making it a criminal offence to refuse to disclose passwords. Border police have used it for harassment and for ‘fishing expeditions’ to go through a journalist’s or activist’s contacts and communications. Some have refused to disclose passwords but no one has yet been prosecuted for it.

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