{"id":22843,"date":"2023-11-09T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/gaza-activist-on-speaking-tour-in-france-detained-awaiting-deportation\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T11:48:06","slug":"gaza-activist-on-speaking-tour-in-france-detained-awaiting-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/gaza-activist-on-speaking-tour-in-france-detained-awaiting-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza activist on speaking tour in France detained, awaiting deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Palestinian activist Mariam Abudaqa, who came to France for a speaking tour in September, was taken into custody on Wednesday night in Paris after a court approved her deportation, her lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s ruling by the Conseil d\u2019Etat, France\u2019s highest administrative court, said 72-year-old Abudaqa, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was \u201clikely to seriously disturb public order\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Abudaqa, who had been put under house arrest for four days in October, had said she planned to leave Paris for Egypt on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently being held in a police station in Paris, her lawyer said. Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The French government has cracked down on expressions of solidarity with Palestine in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1779807\">Hamas\u2019 Oct 7 attack<\/a> on Israel. Some protests have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1780805\">banned<\/a> and events cancelled, and French authorities have accused some pro-Palestine groups of condoning terrorism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1787138\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israel\u2019s retaliatory assault on the enclave, according to health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Abudaqa said she had lost 30 members of her family since the beginning of the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are supposed to die without even saying ouch, without expressing pain,\u201d Abudaqa said at a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-occupation and women\u2019s rights activist had been invited to speak at the French national assembly at an event on Thursday, but her participation was blocked in October by the Assembly president.<\/p>\n<p>The Conseil d\u2019Etat based its ruling on Abudaqa\u2019s membership of the PFLP, stating that she occupies a \u201cleadership\u201d position.<\/p>\n<p>The PFLP is the second largest faction in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), which is recognised by the UN and Israel, but is blacklisted by the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Stambul, an activist with the Union of French Jews for Peace which supported Abudaqa\u2019s challenge in court, said she hadn\u2019t held a senior position in the group for more than twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is a \u201ccontinuation of the criminalisation of the Palestinian population\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The interior minister\u2019s office did not respond for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Abudaqa said she has trouble sleeping as Israeli strikes on Gaza continue and has become scared of checking her phone, for fear of more bad news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath is much easier than staying here, while my heart aches for them. Or having to receive news every day of one of them dying,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian activist Mariam Abudaqa, who came to France for a speaking tour in September, was taken into custody on Wednesday night in Paris after a court approved her deportation, her lawyer said. Wednesday\u2019s ruling by the Conseil d\u2019Etat, France\u2019s highest administrative court, said 72-year-old Abudaqa, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/0915114144949df.jpg?r=151848","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}