Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal charged after London protest

Ben Jamal, director of the UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), has been charged with public order offences after a major pro-Palestine rally in London on Saturday that saw 77 people arrested.

The British capital's Metropolitan Police accused demonstrators of breaking through a police cordon in  central London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday, which the protest's organisers strongly deny.

The rally drew over 50,000 people, according to estimates by the organisers. Jamal is due to appear in court on 21 February, with PSC being one of the advocacy groups that organised the march.

According to the Met, Jamal, 61, was "charged with public order offences, including inciting people to fail to comply with conditions."

The police force said officers saw a "coordinated effort" to breach conditions that "prevented protesters forming up in the vicinity of a synagogue located a short distance from Portland Place [where the BBC headquarters are].

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