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A LONDON student was finally freed from a German jail yesterday, 11 weeks after being arrested for taking part in protests at the European Central Bank headquarters’ opening day.
Federico Annibale, a masters student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, was arrested on March 18 under special public order legislation in place for the anti-austerity demonstrations in Frankfurt.
He was found in possession of two stones and charged with “breach of the peace and attempted grievous bodily harm.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
JOE ATTARD explains why trade unionists are rallying in solidarity against the recent arrest of political activists in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost region of Kashmir, administered by Pakistan
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN