2024-08-07: News Headlines

newarab (2024-08-07). Germany convicts pro-Gaza activist for 'from river to sea' chant. newarab.com A 22-year-old activist has been convicted of condoning a crime for chanting the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at a rally in the German capital Berlin, in a move her defence team slammed as a suppression of free speech. | Ava Moayeri, a German-Iranian national, was arrested just days after Israel's war on Gaza began on 7 October after she was accused of "condoning the assault by Hamas" when she recited the chant on an 11 October protest near the Sonnenallee boulevard in the Neukà∂lln district, which the activist co-organised. | Before the trial started, Moayeri said in a statem…

Freedom From Torture (2024-08-07). 'Torture Survivors Terrified to go out as Far-Right Riots Sweep Britain'. bylinetimes.com The scenes of violence that we've seen unravelling across the country have left me reeling. It's horrendous. | It reminds me of my grandma's stories of Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts in 1930s London. Images of people attacking and setting fires to hotels housing refugees, of minoritised communities being abused and attacked in the streets have been awful to watch. But for the survivors that

geo.tv (2024-08-07). UK's Starmer guarantees safety for Muslims amid violent protests. geo.tv Police trying to handle the situation in Great Britain. —ReutersStarmer holds emergency meeting with ministers, police chiefs."Our first duty is to ensure our communities are safe," he says. UK prime minister says more than 400 people had been arrested. | India's hawkish defence analysts inexplicably attribute former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, following widespread student protests, to foreign interference. | Polic…

countercounterinsurgent (2024-08-07). "Tear Gas Tim" – Tim Walz's executive orders to repress the George Floyd Uprising. indybay.org

(2024-08-07). Nigerian security forces attack, arrest journalists covering protests. premiumtimesng.com

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