Palestine Action Group taken to Supreme Court by NSW Police in latest attempt to stop protest from occurring
The Palestine Action Group will be defending the right to protest in the Supreme Court of NSW after the NSW Police announced they will challenge a planned rally in Sydney on 12 October, claiming that it poses a “potential terror threat”. The planned rally will mark two years of genocide in Palestine and comes after up to 300 thousand people safely marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in August this year.
Labor Premier Chris Minns and Police Minister Yasmin Catley have both signalled their opposition to the protest.
Greens MP, Spokesperson for justice and Solicitor Sue Higginson said:
“It is outrageous, extreme and racist of the NSW Police to claim the planned peaceful rally is a “potential terror threat” and it’s oppressive to resort to arduous court proceedings, once again, to try to stop it. The Palestine Action Group is simply trying to facilitate the much needed event to mark two years of the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza,”
“The Police have lost the plot, claiming that the planned event is a “terror threat” is outlandish, not based on evidence and is completely counter-intelligent. If this is a sign of how things are to be under the newly appointed Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon, we should all be concerned,”
“The Minns Labor Government does not seem to have learnt anything from the last two years of peaceful pro-Palestine marches and the historic March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge. The pro-Palestine movement here in NSW is a peaceful movement of hundreds of thousands of people who choose constructively to exercise their right of political expression and their hope as they protest against Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza,”
“It is essential that the Minns Labor Government acknowledges the genocide that is motivating these protests. It’s also time for the Premier to declare which side of history he is on.”
“Two years ago he decided to light the sails of the Opera House in support of Israel, now two years later it is understood that more than 680,000 Palestinian people have been killed, women and children maimed and starved, forcibly displaced and Gaza has been razed.”
“The people of New South Wales have the right to march to the Opera House to honour the Palestinian people who have lost their lives and those who are suffering the unbearable atrocities that continue to be inflicted,”