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Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine

Hylton, Riri
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/riri-hylton/germany-threatens-journalist-prison-speaking-about-palestine

Publisher:  Electronic Intifada
Date Written:  01/07/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat has been banned from speaking or participating in political activity in Germany.

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German authorities barred Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat from speaking at a Palestine solidarity event in Berlin, claiming his "anti-Semitic" speeches posed a threat to public order and could undermine relations between the country and Israel....

The police took Barakat and his wife to a police station where government officials handed him an eight-page document prohibiting him from political activity.

The document, issued by the Berlin Foreigners Registration Office and seen by The Electronic Intifada, states in German that Barakat faces a ban on participating in specific events and a general "limit on your political activity until you leave the Federal Republic of Germany...."

Barakat strongly refutes the claim that his speech would have caused tensions between Jewish and Arab communities in Berlin and asserts, rather, that authorities are trying to prevent a united front from emerging.
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