NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge | New South Wales
Pro -Palestinian protesters will be legally protected while walking at the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Sunday after a new Supreme Court of Southern Wales.
In his judiciary, Justice Belinda Rigg said, “This position is motivated by the belief that the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza require an emergency and extraordinary reaction from the people of the world.
“Evidence shows that there is an important support for walking.”
The Palestinian Action group protested against Israel’s behavior in Gaza and the hunger of children, claiming that 50,000 people would participate in the march from the iconic bridge.
At the beginning of this week, the police rejected an application from organizers to facilitate the walk. The police warned that there was not enough time to prepare a traffic management plan and a potential crowded paste and great interruptions.
After the application known as “Form 1 öz, the Supreme Court had to decide whether the protest would be accepted as“ authorized ve and decided that the demonstrators would provide some legal protections.
The court decision means that the protesters will be exempted from being collected in accordance with the summary crimes law. This includes protection from crimes such as “blocking” traffic, which is very important in this special protest.
However, the police can still reach a number of other authorities called “anti-social behavior” or other types of crime. This involves showing prohibited symbols.
Rigg said that the fact that the show may cause significant disorders to residents and others is “far from determining”.
“If it were decisive to such issues, no uncomfortable assembly would be allowed,” he said.
“The opportunity to show such groups in a public council authorized will inevitably lead to anger and alienation.”
Rigg said that Josh Lees, the spokesman of the Palestinian Action Group, would send a “emergency and big response ına to the crisis in Gaza, which sang a demonstration on the iconic bridge.
David Mejia-Canales, a senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Center, said that the authority does not give people the ability to participate in all kinds of and all kinds of activism ”.
“It is really important for the organizers and Marshals to follow the instructions for the participants.”
There is no authority to prohibit or see the protest in NSW. The reason for this is that although the state does not have the right to protest, it is handled by the Australian Constitution, in which the common law and the high court imply the right to freedom of political communication.
Felicity Graham, the lawyer of the Palestinian action group, said to the court on Friday, the organizers will continue to demonstrate independently of the decision.
Graham, “I have the most robust instructions that the Palestinian Action Group continued with this protest.
Graham said that his argument was not to threaten the court, but he said, “The police have no other option ve and that there was no evidence that the protest would increase public security.
“The intention of walking, regardless of immunity, is based on the belief that the situation is one of the deep moral urgency and that time is now,” he said.
Lees said that if the police were willing to work with them, the group was willing to postpone the protest for up to three weeks.
Police’s lawyer Lachlan Gyles argued that what was asked was “unseen ış in terms of“ risk, lack of time to prepare and, of course, one of the main arteries in one of the largest cities in the world ”.
“There was no transportation with any agency and state official to participate, especially for the new Southern Wales,” he said.
The decision came after a few NSW workers’ deputies opposing their prime ministers Chris Minns, promising to participate in the march.
Stephen Lawrence of Labour, Anthony D’Am, Voltz, Cameron Murphy and Sarah Kaine were among the 15 NSW politicians who signed an open letter on Thursday evening.
