Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Palestine Defenders Decry ‘Intolerable’ Arrest of French Politician Rima Hassan
“Once again, the offense of glorifying terrorism is being used to repress a Palestinian activist known worldwide for her fight against #genocide,” lamented one attorney.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rima-hassan-arrest
from #CommonDreams
Apr 02, 2026
Police in Paris apprehended and briefly detained European Parliament Member #RimaHassan Thursday on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”—an allegation critics slammed as “judicial harassment” aimed at silencing her outspoken criticism of #israel's genocidal war on #Gaza and the #French government’s support for it.
[she] was one of the leaders of the June 2025 Gaza #FreedomFlotilla Madleen mission, along with climate campaigner #GretaThunberg and others. Hassan and others aboard were intercepted by Israeli forces and arrested in international waters as they attempted to deliver food, children’s prosthetics, and other desperately needed supplies...
