Police arrest doctor for holding sign supporting refugees
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2020-05-15

Refugee activist and medical doctor Kamala Emanuel was arrested by Queensland Police on May 15 for holding a sign. The sign said "COVID-19: Just one more reason to free the refugees".

Her account of her arrest and subsequent arrest can be found here:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-one-more-reason-free-refugees-and-defend-right-protest

The arrest took place at a solidarity action for refugees outside a Kangaroo Point hotel that is being used as an "Alternative Place of Detention". This was the fifth weekly solidarity action.

Activists have been highlighting the additional risk of COVID-19 to refugees detained in this way.

Others were harassed by police at the action and at least two other people were fined. This escalation of police harassment follows a similar police response the week before:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/residents-fined-8000-over-refugee-solidarity-action

#GreenLeft #FreeTheRefugees #AusPol


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