{"id":34565,"date":"2024-04-27T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34565"},"modified":"2024-04-27T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T14:51:28","slug":"german-ambassadors-speech-interrupted-by-pro-palestinian-protester-at-ajconf-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/german-ambassadors-speech-interrupted-by-pro-palestinian-protester-at-ajconf-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"German ambassador\u2019s speech interrupted by pro-Palestinian protester at AJCONF in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: At the human rights conference in Lahore, pro-Palestinian protesters raised slogans in support of the people of Gaza while protesting strongly\u00a0during the German ambassador&#8217;s speech on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>German Ambassador to Pakistan Alfred Grannas was speaking at the 5th Asma Jahangir Conference titled \u2018People\u2019s Mandate: Safeguarding Civil Rights in South Asia\u2019. Federal Minister for Law Nazir Tarar and Senior Supreme Court Judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah also attended the two-day conference.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Ambassador Grannas started his speech, the young protestor in the audience got up and started saying, \u201cExcuse me, Mr. Ambassador. I am shocked by the audacity that you are here to talk about civil rights while your country is brutally abusing the people speaking for the rights of the Palestinians.\u201d. The students also raised slogans in favor of Gaza and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His comments drew applause and cheer from the crowd, while chants of \u201cFree, Free Palestine\u201d and \u201cFrom the River to the Sea\u201d could be heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/malala-shows-her-support-for-gaza-after-major-backlash\/\">Malala shows her support for Gaza after major backlash<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the German ambassador could not control himself for speaking loudly and scolded the boy.\u00a0Grannas immediately said, \u201cIf you want to shout, go out, there you can shout. Because shouting is not a discussion.\u201d The organizers of the conference expelled the youth who spoke in favor of Palestine from the human ownership conference.<\/p>\n<p>Former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ahsan Bhawan, while addressing the Asma Jahangir Conference, said that people have\u00a0been arrested\u00a0for protesting in favor of Palestine this week in the major universities of the world, Asma Jahangir continues to stand against the dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Progressive Students Collective (PSC) said its member Ali Raza exposed the hypocrisy of the German ambassador by questioning him on the role of Germany in the deaths in Gaza. &#8220;The organizers of Asma\u00a0<\/span>Jahangir\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Conference forcefully silenced the voices of students while platforming the facilitators of Palestinian genocide.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The student organization alleged that the conference organizers \u201cassaulted the students and peeled their skin off<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: At the human rights conference in Lahore, pro-Palestinian protesters raised slogans in support of the people of Gaza while protesting strongly\u00a0during the German ambassador&#8217;s speech on Saturday. German Ambassador to Pakistan Alfred Grannas was speaking at the 5th Asma Jahangir Conference titled \u2018People\u2019s Mandate: Safeguarding Civil Rights in South Asia\u2019. Federal Minister for Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14810,2],"tags":[15917,15918],"class_list":["post-34565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-pakistan","tag-asma-jhangir-conference","tag-german-ambassador-to-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}