Up to six protesters could face prosecution in Australia over their involvement in weekend rallies that featured Hezbollah flags and imagery of the group's slain leader. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the events as 'worrying,' and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said security agencies are closely monitoring the situation.
Up to six protesters could face prosecution over their role in weekend rallies which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dubbed “worrying”. At pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney and Melbourne on Sunday, some attendees carried Hezbollah flags and held portraits of the group’s slain leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. Mr Albanese on Monday warned against importing “radical ideologies and conflict”.
He said it was “completely unacceptable” that no immediate arrests or moves to act on visas had occurred since the protests, and compared the placards of Nasrallah to glorifying Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden. “There is an absolute outrage in relation to the glorification of a terrorist leader, which surely must be against the Australian law; and if it’s not, the Parliament should be recalled to pass a law that prohibits that from happening,” Mr Dutton said.
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