LONDON (AP) – Activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike. Correspondent Bernie Bennett has detials. VERBATIM: The protest group Prisoners for Palestine shared a video showing the 22-year-old Swede holding a sign supporting the hunger strikers and their organization, known as Palestine Action. […]
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Greta Thunberg Arrested in London
LONDON (AP) – Activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike. Correspondent Bernie Bennett has detials.
VERBATIM:
The protest group Prisoners for Palestine shared a video showing the 22-year-old Swede holding a sign supporting the hunger strikers and their organization, known as Palestine Action. The British government earlier this year banned Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.
The activists were protesting their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations.
Thunberg has repeatedly been fined in Sweden and the U.K. for civil disobedience in connection with protests.
Bernie Bennett reporting.