French MEP released after arrest over pro-Palestine post deemed ‘apology for terrorism,’ face July trial

LONDON: French MEP Rima Hassan was released from custody on Thursday night after being held for several hours on suspicion of “apology for terrorism” over a social media post about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport. She will stand trial on July 7. Hassan, 33, a member of the left-wing La France Insoumise party and a vocal pro-Palestinian activist of Palestinian descent, was arrested after posting — and later deleting — a comment on X in late March quoting Kozo Okamoto, one of the perpetrators of the 1972 Japanese Red Army attack on Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, which killed 26 people.

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