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Al monitor:: Electricity crisis tests right to protest in Gaza

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13 September 2015

...Samir Zakout, an activist and coordinator of the Field Research Unit at the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, said the center had received complaints from protesters as well as journalists subjected to repression during the electricity protests and forced to sign a statement pledging not to participate in the movement. “Preventing peaceful assemblies, suppressing protests, forcing protesters to clear protest areas and requiring permission or authorization to organize a protest are all absolutely illegal practices that the police are not entitled to exercise,” said Zakout...

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