Rima Hassan Denounces Police Misconduct and Illegal Tracking
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- French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan was taken into police custody in France on Thursday, April 16, 2026, for alleged "apology for terrorism" following a social...
- The arrest stems from a post Hassan shared on March 26, 2026, on the platform X, in which she shared an article about Japanese pro-Palestinian activist Kozo Okamoto,...
- French authorities allege that the post constitutes an apology for terrorism, claiming it explicitly references a perpetrator of a terrorist attack, repeats his quote without condemnation, and presents...
French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan was taken into police custody in France on Thursday, April 16, 2026, for alleged “apology for terrorism” following a social media post about Palestinian resistance.
The arrest stems from a post Hassan shared on March 26, 2026, on the platform X, in which she shared an article about Japanese pro-Palestinian activist Kozo Okamoto, a former member of the Japanese Red Army who participated in the 1972 Lod Airport attack in Israel that resulted in 26 deaths. Hassan accompanied the post with a quote from Okamoto stating: “I gave my youth to the Palestinian cause. As long as there is oppression, resistance is not only a right, it is a duty.”