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Eleven arrested at pro-Palestine demonstration in central London
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/...89394.html
INTRO: Eleven people have been arrested at a pro-Palestine demonstration in central London. The arrests were for a string of alleged offences, including inciting racial hatred, suspicion of support for a proscribed organisation in relation to a placard, and assaulting emergency workers.
Between 200,000 and 250,000 people were expected at the demonstration, according to a spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Protesters met at the south of Park Lane, holding banners calling for a “ceasefire now” and chanting “free, free Palestine”, before leaving for designated place near the Israeli embassy where speeches would be made.
Among the speakers was former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Palestinian ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who both called for “justice” for the Palestinian people. [New Antisemitism .... The Left's Jewish Problem]
The Islington North MP also told the crowd he will be voting in support of a ceasefire motion being held by Westminster next week, due to be tabled by the Scottish National Party... (MORE - details)
UK will take action over Navalny’s death, foreign minister says
https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/202...ays/118560
INTRO: Britain will take action over the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and it is calling on other countries to do likewise, British foreign minister David Cameron said today.
“There should be consequences when appalling human rights outrages like this take place,” Cameron told Sky News. “What we do is we look at whether there are individual people that are responsible and whether there are individual actions that we can take.”
Russia’s prison service said that Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died yesterday after a walk at the Arctic penal colony where he was detained. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh today confirmed his death, citing an official notice given to his mother,
Western leaders and officials have expressed outrage over the death of Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reaction unacceptable yesterday.
The British government said yesterday it was summoning an official from the Russian embassy to make clear it held Russian authorities “fully responsible” for the death... (MORE - details)
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/...89394.html
INTRO: Eleven people have been arrested at a pro-Palestine demonstration in central London. The arrests were for a string of alleged offences, including inciting racial hatred, suspicion of support for a proscribed organisation in relation to a placard, and assaulting emergency workers.
Between 200,000 and 250,000 people were expected at the demonstration, according to a spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Protesters met at the south of Park Lane, holding banners calling for a “ceasefire now” and chanting “free, free Palestine”, before leaving for designated place near the Israeli embassy where speeches would be made.
Among the speakers was former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Palestinian ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who both called for “justice” for the Palestinian people. [New Antisemitism .... The Left's Jewish Problem]
The Islington North MP also told the crowd he will be voting in support of a ceasefire motion being held by Westminster next week, due to be tabled by the Scottish National Party... (MORE - details)
UK will take action over Navalny’s death, foreign minister says
https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/202...ays/118560
INTRO: Britain will take action over the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and it is calling on other countries to do likewise, British foreign minister David Cameron said today.
“There should be consequences when appalling human rights outrages like this take place,” Cameron told Sky News. “What we do is we look at whether there are individual people that are responsible and whether there are individual actions that we can take.”
Russia’s prison service said that Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died yesterday after a walk at the Arctic penal colony where he was detained. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh today confirmed his death, citing an official notice given to his mother,
Western leaders and officials have expressed outrage over the death of Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reaction unacceptable yesterday.
The British government said yesterday it was summoning an official from the Russian embassy to make clear it held Russian authorities “fully responsible” for the death... (MORE - details)