{"id":13332,"date":"2025-08-29T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/tanaiste-must-act-after-german-police-viciously-beat-irish-gaza-activist\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:43:57","slug":"tanaiste-must-act-after-german-police-viciously-beat-irish-gaza-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/tanaiste-must-act-after-german-police-viciously-beat-irish-gaza-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste must act after German police viciously beat Irish Gaza activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This kind of treatment of a peaceful protestor is horrific and completely unacceptable<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>T\u00e1naiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris must raise the brutal treatment of a peaceful Irish protestor by German police with the German ambassador, according to Social Democrats foreign affairs spokesperson Patricia Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Stephenson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA shocking video, circulating on social media, shows German police, at a Gaza protest in Berlin, repeatedly punching a peaceful Irish activist in the face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the video, blood can be seen pouring from the woman\u2019s nose as she is viciously beaten by police, before being violently dragged off by two of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of treatment of a peaceful protestor is horrific and completely unacceptable \u2013 particularly in the EU, where freedom of speech and the right to protest is supposed to be protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cT\u00e1naiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris must raise the brutal treatment of this Irish woman with the German ambassador today. He must also ensure she has the consular and medical care and support she needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am utterly disgusted to see the depths to which some EU countries have sunk, not only arming a genocide in Gaza \u2013 but violently suppressing those who are brave enough to speak out and peacefully protest about the slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of treatment of a peaceful protestor is horrific and completely unacceptable T\u00e1naiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris must raise the brutal treatment of a peaceful Irish protestor by German police with the German ambassador, according to Social Democrats foreign affairs spokesperson Patricia Stephenson. 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