{"id":614693,"date":"2026-04-18T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:34:11","slug":"protesters-arrested-at-brisbane-pro-palestine-rally-featuring-banned-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614693\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters arrested at Brisbane pro-Palestine rally featuring banned phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have made multiple arrests at a pro-Palestine rally in Brisbane where protesters intentionally chanted banned slogans.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters gathered near Brisbane’s Supreme Court on Saturday to voice objections to Queensland’s hate speech laws.<\/p>\n

During the protest, a group unveiled a banner featuring the banned phrase “from the river to the sea”.<\/p>\n

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There was a heavy police presence at the rally. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Several minutes later police removed the banner, and a number of people who were holding it up were led away.<\/p>\n

Queensland police confirmed that a number of people had been arrested.<\/p>\n

The phrases “from the river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada” are outlawed in the state when used to menace or offend.<\/p>\n

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Protesters and police clashed at times during the rally. (ABC News: Tara Cassidy)<\/p>\n

Before Saturday, at least three people had been arrested in Queensland after the hate speech laws came into effect last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

Liam Parry, 33, became the first person arrested and charged under the new laws, over a protest outside Queensland’s Parliament House on March 11.<\/p>\n

Mr Parry is facing one count of reciting or publicly displaying a prohibited expression that is reasonably expected to menace, harass or offend a member of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have made multiple arrests at a pro-Palestine rally in Brisbane where protesters intentionally chanted banned slogans. Hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45387,64,63,289284,273361,44,6899,1158,2647,94,701],"class_list":{"0":"post-614693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-banned-phrase","12":"tag-from-the-river-to-the-sea","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-protest","17":"tag-qld","18":"tag-queensland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}