French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan to be tried for 'advocating terrorism' in X post

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Source: France 24

Rima Hassan, a European Parliament member from the France Unbowed (LFI) party who is of Palestinian descent, will face trial in July on charges of "advocating terrorism" online over a message on X she posted last month. The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the European Jewish Organization lodged complaints against the post referencing a 1972 Israeli airport attack.

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