Four imprisoned Palestine Action activists appeal ‘terrorism’ sentences

What the report says

Four imprisoned Palestine Action activists are appealing against terrorism-linked sentences imposed by a UK court, Al Jazeera reports. The case involves Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Zainab Rajwani, who were convicted of criminal damage with a terrorist connection after a 2024 raid on an Israeli arms factory in Filton, near Bristol. According to the article, the activists’ supporters say the case has created a troubling precedent because it treated property damage as terrorism in British courts.

Al Jazeera says the four were sentenced in June 2026, with Head and Kamio receiving five years each, Corner receiving seven years and eight months, and Rajwani receiving four years and eight months. Corner was also convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent after striking a police officer during the raid. Their appeal argues that the convictions breached the European Convention on Human Rights because Palestine Action was not yet a proscribed organization at the time of the offence, and that the punishments were excessive.

The report places the case in the wider context of Britain’s 2025 ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, a move that has led to thousands of arrests linked to protest activity. Supporters, human rights advocates and some legal figures have criticized the ban and the sentencing as heavy-handed, while the activists’ families say the prison terms and post-release restrictions could affect their futures for years. Al Jazeera says no appeal date has yet been set.