LFI conference prohibited: "My lawyers are working on it, it’s in progress"says Rima Hassan about a possible appeal

Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din

“It’s in progress, my lawyers and the lawyers of La France insoumise are working” to an appeal, declared Thursday April 18 on franceinfo the Franco-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan and LFI candidate for the European elections, after the ban by the Northern prefecture of a conference that she was to hold with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Palestine , in Lille. The prefecture mentioned a risk of “disturbance of public order”.

Rima Hassan denounced “the pressures” suffered by the University of Lille, which also canceled this conference on Wednesday. “The presidency of the University of Lille pointed out these pressures in its press release and said that it regrets having been subjected to this political pressure”.

According to the activist, the subject of the Middle East is “eminently political” : “What I am pointing out is intellectual laziness. My comments are systematically caricatured. I have been subjected to this for many months”she regrets. “Even though I do a job which consists of sourcing my positions, referring to United Nations positions, I am systematically caricatured in order to be disqualified.”

“It is important to remain courageous on this subject and to denounce what there is to denounce, namely a genocide”she finished.