{"id":77257,"date":"2025-08-18T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77257\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:05:06","slug":"queensland-police-go-to-court-in-bid-to-stop-story-bridge-pro-palestine-protest-march-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77257\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland police go to court in bid to stop Story Bridge pro-Palestine protest march | Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Queensland<\/a> police service will take protest organisers to court in an effort to halt a planned pro-Palestine march over Brisbane\u2019s Story Bridge this weekend.<\/p>\n

Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) have advertised plans to march over the bridge at 1pm on Sunday \u2013 replicating similar protests that occurred earlier this month in Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Spokesperson for Justice for Palestine Magan-djin Remah Naji said the group is expecting at least 7,000 people to attend the rally. The Queensland police oppose the march on public safety grounds. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnder provisions of the peaceful assembly act, police will lodge documentation with Brisbane magistrates court for a decision to be made with respect to the notice of intention to hold a public assembly,\u201d a spokesperson for the Queensland police service said.<\/p>\n

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The matter is yet to be given a date of listing.<\/p>\n

A cycling group was denied the right to march or ride over the bridge earlier this year at a hearing at the magistrates court on public safety grounds.<\/p>\n

Naji said the march organisers had already briefed lawyers and were ready for a legal fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very much willing to defend our fundamental right to peaceful assembly. If they want to go down this path, we\u2019re ready,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Police in New South Wales sought to deny legal protection to a planned protest over the Sydney Harbour Bridge earlier this month \u2013 but that bid was overturned by the NSW supreme court at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n

Police say 90,000 people marched across that iconic structure, organisers put the figure at closer to 300,000 \u2013 regardless, the scale of the turnout ranks the protest as historic<\/a> and the day went ahead without major incidents.<\/p>\n

In Melbourne on the same day, in contrast, pro-Palestine protesters were met by a wall of police in riot gear behind barricades<\/a> and backed by a row of mounted officers and riot squad vans when they sought to cross the King Street Bridge.<\/p>\n

Justice for Palestine Magan-djin conducted mediation with Queensland police on Monday morning. QPS presented two options to the protest group for locations other than the bridge.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the QPS confirmed that mediation had taken place on Monday morning \u201chowever an agreement could not be met\u201d.<\/p>\n

Naji didn\u2019t rule out violating a court injunction if the magistrates court ruled against them, saying it would be a decision for the group collectively.<\/p>\n

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She said the bridge was a central part of the protest because the urgency of the situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ongoing livestreamed genocide demands visibility. It is not enough for us to do the usual routes,\u201d Naji said.<\/p>\n

She said the aim of the march was \u201cto apply the maximum pressure on our government\u201d.<\/p>\n

Justice for Palestine Magan-djin has been holding regular protests in Brisbane for the last 22 months since the escalation of the conflict in Gaza after Israel responded to Hamas\u2019 attack on 7 October 2023<\/a> with a full-scale invasion, bombardment and blockade of aid in the Gaza Strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 60,000 people have been killed<\/a> in Gaza \u2013 mostly women, children and elderly people \u2013 since the war began, according to Palestinian health officials.<\/p>\n

\u2013 With additional reporting by Joe Hinchliffe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensland police service will take protest organisers to court in an effort to halt a planned pro-Palestine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-77257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257","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=77257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}