More than 700 people have been arrested since it was banned as a terrorist group in early July. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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More than 700 people have been arrested since it was banned as a terrorist group in early July, including 522 people arrested at a protest last weekend for displaying placards backing the group – thought to be the highest ever recorded number of detentions at a single protest in the British capital.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Stopping people being slaughtered is more important than being able to put 2 specific words together.

      The only excuse is if the arrests make the anti genocide protests more prominent.

      • supamanc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Which it kimd of does. News on the arrests and progress of the prosecution is keeping this in the news cycle way longer than the original protest.