Four activists taken to court for blockading the Israeli-owned cosmetics shop, Ahava, in Covent Garden, London, in 2009, were acquitted by Highbury Corner magistrates on 12 August after the shop manager refused to attend court to give evidence.
The four had closed the shop down for the day on two occasions by locking themselves to concrete-filled oil drums.
Fortnightly Saturday lunchtime demonstrations continue outside the shop, 39 Monmouth St WC2, for its complicity in the occupation of Palestinian territory.
Topics: Israel-Palestine