Natasha Walter: if a far-right government was treating protesters like Labour is, there would be outrage
Activists have been detained for months without trial and declared terrorists. On Friday, four will be sentenced under egregious circumstances. We should be more alarmed that Palestine and climate campaigners are being treated like this in a social democracy, writes the author and columnist
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‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria
In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter
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'The word terrorism is used to remove empathy': Natasha Walter on how language dehumanises the Palestine Action hunger strikers
Heba Muraisi has never been charged, tried or convicted of terrorism. But she and the other hunger strikers have been stripped of humanity in the way they have been labelled by the government. The damage is evident in how ordinary people react to them
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