BERLIN, Oct 19 — As tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the world on Oct. 13 in support of the Palestinians, all such protests in Germany and France were...
A woman holds a Palestinian flag during an unauthorized demonstration in support of Palestinians, as part of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the Place de la Republique in Paris as French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered the systematic banning of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the arrest of participants within France, October 12, 2023.
Over the weekend, Paris police issued a ban on the “presence and circulation of people that present themselves as pro-Palestinian”. Since Oct. 12 they have issued 752 fines and arrested 43 people. In Germany, the issue is particularly acute because of the killing of six million European Jews in the Holocaust by the Nazis.
“Human rights law doesn’t allow the government to just broadly say there is a concern about violence and use that as a justification to ban protests,” said Benjamin Ward, a deputy director at Human Rights Watch.Hungary and Austria have also blocked pro-Palestine protests since Oct.7, while in the rest of Europe large rallies supporting Palestinians have been held with few restrictions.
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