Hannah Thomas’ injuries and Australia’s protester crackdown

His right eye was swollen, blood flowing from his cheeks. Hannah Thomas released the image after he was arrested after he continued his injuries and forcibly removed from a pro -Palestinian protest on last Friday. Thomas, who worked as a candidate for greenery against Prime Minister Anthony Arnavutça in Grayndler voters in 2025, may lose his opinion in his right eye.

So far, the only person who has faced any legal sanctions for this Thomas himself – Because he blocks a police officer or refused to resist and obey the direction of disintegration – and the other four protesters.

“I am one of five feet. An Instagram video Sunday night from the hospital bed.

There were clear criminals in mind:

I look like this now [New South Wales Premier] Chris Minns and [New South Wales police minister] Yasmin Catley and their attempts to demonize protesters, especially for Palestine. They forced the police to break with extreme violence and atrocity and warned that these laws would lead to this conclusion.

Oppression in opposition

The new South Wales were always clear about their views on protest.

The new South Wales Police Minister said, “I don’t want to see the protests on our streets from anyone.” Yasmin Catley said On October 7, 2023, Hamas’ persecution of Israeli civilians in the days following the persecution “I do not think anyone really did.”

However, in February this year, afterwards Dural Caravan Deception (later more), nsw new laws passed restrict the right to protestAnd the police were given additional powers to the protesters to move close to worship. Furthermore, any behavior that can be interpreted as harassment or intimidation of worshipers may cause imprisonment of up to two years. The laws also expanded their scope. NSW’s protest permission system.

NSW police, Thomas and other protesters in the arrest of new anti-anti-anti-anti-entertainment, and the protesters, allegedly prevented access to pedestrian coating, said the business was allegedly protested.

NSW Police Commissioner Brett McFadden said to 2GB, “New laws specified during the weekend media were not used on this occasion,” he said.

However, the arrest documents for one of the five accused by both ABC and nine articles referred to a protest of a protest.

Dural Caravan

The legislation hurry watched the discovery of a caravan loaded with decades of explosives and the scope of the media for weeks following the address of a Sydney synagogue in Dural’s external suburb in January this year.

Discovery does not leak to the media, the NSW police said that the situation was “installation”. Australia Federal Police Deputy National Security Commissioner Krissy Barrett then believed that AFP’s experienced inspectors were “almost”, how easily the caravan was discovered, how much the explosives were “visible” and that there was no explosives in a very important way.

None of them stopped NSW Prime Minister Chris Minns discovered the police a “potential mass wounded incident ve and there is only one way to call it and this terrorism”. The next day Prime Minister Anthony Albanian It was definitely accepted With the evaluation of Minns.

In March, during this time the most anti-yasalar passed, the deception was made public. Currently, there is a state legislative investigation that looks at whether the public has been misleaded in the law.

James Cullen-other senior employees, the president of Minns, faced the risk of arrest by not being invited when he was called the previous week. Investigation on Friday“The relationship built by some of the Dural Caravan incident and the transition of these three legislation is extremely unfortunate and unfair.”

Regardless of that, McFadden’s insistence on the fact that what happened to Thomas does not tell his own story – the pressure on the opposition has been continuing for years.

Erosion of the civil field

A descriptive detail about how deeply he was sitting and two parties to avoid protests in NSW: In December 2022, under the previous liberal government, Government Minister Alister Henskens was happily approved. Anti -infest laws that send his nephewThe climate protestoist Deanna “Violet” Coco, jail.

NSW is far from being alone. In recent years, Victoria– South AustraliaTasmania and Western Australia, legislation or police raids were further further in the opposition.

Since October 7, 2023, the primary goals have expanded from climate protests – Australia Leads the world While imprisoning climate protesters – to include protesters against Israel’s behavior in Gaza.

Official Answers

NSW Police Commissioner Deputy Brett McFadden was representative in 2GB as you expected: “Our police are asked to do hard things every day of the week, and for me, I have not been abused and support the police’s actions.”

Interior Minister Tony Burke, Thomas’ın injuries of some sympathy, but said he received a similar line.

“When people were asked to continue by the police, they should have followed the direction of the police. Apparently they did not do it,” he said. Sky News.

“The problem of injury will be handled by the police review, but for everyone who wants to protest, you know, no one is above the law.”

During the writing, Albania did not comment on what happened to his former rival Thomas for Grayndler and the current founder.