UK attorney general rejects arrest warrant for visiting Israeli president

The UK's attorney general, Lord Richard Hermer, and director of public prosecutions (DPP) Stephen Parkinson have rejected an application for an arrest warrant for Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The pro-Palestine campaign group Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), which submitted the application earlier this week, said on Thursday it was now lodging a claim in the High Court for judicial review to challenge the decision.

FOA told Middle East Eye that it applied for judicial review on the grounds that the DPP did not make "sufficient inquiry to obtain all relevant information available".

The group also said that the Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) approach "was not correct for an urgent application for a suspect who was imminently within the jurisdiction".

On Tuesday, FOA instructed a legal team to apply for the arrest warrant on charges of "aiding, abetting or procuring direct and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects".

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