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Women carry YPG and YPJ flags in Rojava
[Kurdish Struggle/Creative Commons]
A GOVERNMENT ban on flying the flag of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) has been overturned by a German court, which found that it is not a proscribed organisation.
Monika Gartner-Engel had been prosecuted for displaying the YPG flag at a demonstration in March against Turkey’s invasion of the peaceful city of Afrin in northern Syria.
Police attacked the demonstration and confiscated the flag, the German authorities arguing that it was linked to support for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a banned organisation.
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