They also hold people arrested for opposing genocide on remand without trial for months already.

For holding rhe sign.

The famously authoritarian police threatening arrest for an attempt to hold an EMPTY placard.

Or arresting for a shirt with "Plasticine Action".

Or locking in a prison for several years for zoom call in which they planned nonviolent protest (blocking the motorway).

We could do it for months.

Arresting a person for holding a blank placard would indeed be Russia-level oppression. The person in question was not arrested, but threatened to be arrested if he wrote a particular phrase on it [1]. Not great at all, but still no cigar.

A man wearing the "Plasticine Action" T-shirt was indeed arrested [2]. That was extra absurd because the protest was against AI-generated animation, not about a political cause.

All in all, quite bad :(

[1]: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/police-arrest-blank-paper...

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/palestine-action...