Human Rights Law Centre’s Alice Drury says response from police and government to rallies sets ‘very dangerous precedent’
NSW authorities have vowed to stop marches from proceeding while protesters have promised to “march next week and every week” after
Before the plan changed, the police deputy commissioner David Hudson had said the rally would be “unauthorised”, while conceding police “do not have the powers to stop people attending”., saying they had already “proven they’re not peaceful” and “the idea that they’re going to commandeer Sydney streets is not going to happen”.
Drury repeated the claim from event organisers that the people who threw flares and chanted antisemitic slurs were in the minority. She said antisemitism should never be tolerated and neither should silencing peaceful protesters. Drury said governments across the country had been “cracking down” on protests with more intensity in recent years but none more so than in NSW, where she pointed to tough new penalties for protesters that were controversially introduced last year.
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