Kings Cross station: Man 'protesting on roof' of busy London train station hanging banner 'calling for democracy'
A man has been pictured sitting on the roof of a busy London train station.
According to reports and pictures on social media the man is protesting on the roof of King’s Cross train station in London. The man has unfurled a long banner off the roof of the train station.
One user wrote on X: “Right now at kings cross a person is protesting on the roof, i can make out parts of the sign calling for democracy”. Another user said: “Taken just now at Kings Cross station in London. This man is a legend.”
The banner that the protester has unfurled reads: “Prime Minister of the UK The Islamic Republic killed over 40,000 people in just two days this regime has no legitimacy to expel its diplomats. Uphold democracy”.
It comes after the European Union has added Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its terrorist list in response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters in recent weeks. "Repression cannot go unanswered," the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said, adding the move would put the IRGC - a major military, economic and political force in Iran - on the same level as jihadists like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the EU decision was a "stunt" and a "major strategic mistake". Human rights groups estimate thousands of protesters were killed by security forces, including the IRGC, during weeks of unrest in December and January.
Speaking in Brussels on Thursday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot described it as "the most violent repression in Iran's modern history" and said there could be "no impunity for the crimes committed".
France had previously been seen as hesitant to add the IRGC to the EU's terror list over fears this could put an end to all diplomatic ties with Iran. But it changed course on Wednesday, coming out strongly behind a push to blacklist the group, which was led by Italy.
Australia, Canada and the US have already classified the IRGC as a terror group but it has not been proscribed in the UK. On Wednesday, UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy condemned Iran's "brutal oppression of peaceful protesters" but said it was long-standing government policy "not to comment on whether a specific organisation is being considered for proscription".