Tag: palestine

My friend Adib sent me the following message from London:

Here is a 5min video of Saturdays protest. The riot police were deliberately provocative and indiscriminately violent. At some point they declared the protest a riot and rows of police on foot on horses and in vans encircled and trapped at least 1000 people. Over the next couple of hours the crowd was let out one by one, each person was required to say their name, address and date of birth to the police camera before being taken aside and thoroughly searched. When it was my turn to be searched my Aljazeera building pass was in my wallet. I was asked by the officer “Why did you say you did not have a press card?”
“This is not a press card” I replied
“Doesn’t Aljazeera support terrorism” he asked.
The conversation continued but my camera had been taken by this point.