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Surgeon treating patients in Gaza says police in London ‘harassed’ his family
(www.theguardian.com)
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He later told BBC Newsnight that the officers had questioned his wife on why he had travelled to the Palestinian territory, who paid for his ticket and which charity he was helping.
A spokesperson for the Met said: “On 16 October, police officers responding to a report that a man was planning to travel to a war zone attended an address in north London where they spoke with one of the occupants.
“Having identified that the man had left the UK for humanitarian purposes, the officers signposted the occupant to current FCDO advice.”
How is that harassment or an attempt to silence them?
They didn't need to question anyone.
The 7/7 bombings would suggest otherwise.
Guaranteed the name the cops were given had a Dr. designation before his name so they damn well knew they were visiting a physician.
#ACAB
Stop trying to import US BS to the UK. They have enough of their own shit to be dealing with.
You mean like when the UK police force were deemed institutionally racist[1]? Or that other time it was found to be institutionally racist[2]? Yeah we have some shit to deal with here in the UK.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/22/institutional-racism-britain-stephen-lawrence-inquiry-20-years
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report
I agree. The police have a duty to investigate people travelling to high risk areas, to confirm they're not travelling for some sort of terrorism training only to come back and do something horrid. They were doing their due diligence.
If the doctor had actually gone into detail and described the "harassment", then maybe that would be different, but all we have is him saying "they harassed my family" and the police statement gives the detail.
FYI, you should put > in front of each line to do a quote in Markdown. Lemmy is also different to reddit in that you need to put them in the blank lines to make a continuous quote. Like this:
If you were just trying to do italics, then you need to do it for each paragraph, I think.