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Thursday, April 15, 2010

UK's Discriminatory Criminalization of Dissent

In January 2009, Tebani's teenage son Yahia was one of tens of thousands of people who joined demonstrations in London against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. At one of those demonstrations Yahia and many others were "kettled" -- surrounded by a police cordon and slowly let out in return for giving their names and addresses and for being filmed.

That was the last Yahia knew of it until the following April, when the family home was raided by 20 to 30 police at 5am. The front door was forced open and Badi Tebani and his family were ordered to lie on the floor. His four sons were all handcuffed. Three police officers knelt on the back of Hamza, 23. He was sleeping in shorts, but they refused to let him put on any clothes, even though they'd opened the windows, letting in the cold. Computers, mobile phones and clothes were all taken and the family car was broken into. Badi and Hamza described how police played games on the boys' iPhones and made themselves coffee in the kitchen.'

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1 comment:

  1. Well, vote labour in again and you will see a lot worse.

    But knowing these drones, they will go off and, you guessed it, vote in Labour once more.

    Labour does not give a flying.... about your civil liberties...As my ex-Manager (dictator) said to me once, "this is NOT a democracy".

    The fact that such a tyrant can get away with making such a statement at work in the UK, after a grievance, shows you the direction the country has taken.

    In the UK, they will complain about immigration, but the very same Government allows every Tom, dick, and Jane into the country....Would you trust these fake bunch of liars to rule for yet another term?

    Can anyone suggest an alternative?

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