{"id":38883,"date":"2019-02-15T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=38883"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:35:56","slug":"police-clash-kurdish-activists-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/police-clash-kurdish-activists-newport","title":{"rendered":"Police clash with Kurdish activists in Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Injuries reported after Kurdish marchers clashed with police with half a mile remaining in their four-day walk from London.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38888\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6.jpg 625w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38888\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6.jpg 625w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Option-6-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A group of Kurdish activists who arrived in Newport on Friday were blocked by police officers on Chepstow Road where violence broke out, with at least four injuries reported by attendees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protesters were traveling to the Kurdish Community Centre where Imam Sis is on his sixty-first day of a hunger strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kurdish hunger strikers are demanding that their leader, Abdullah Ocalan, be released from isolation in a Turkish prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe had one mile left to walk,\u201d says organiser Mehmet Aksoy. \u201cWhen the police arrived we tried to explain, and helped them with traffic direction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey weren\u2019t listening, and began provoking us,\u201d says Askoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Violence between police and Kurdish activists on Chepstow Road <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Newport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Newport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCWales<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalesOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WalesOnline<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CIGhxMpw87\">pic.twitter.com\/CIGhxMpw87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hannah Liddle (@hjliddle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hjliddle\/status\/1096404177482330112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief Inspector Sarah Davies said in a statement that, \u201cOfficers attended to facilitate a peaceful protest and manage traffic in the area. Minor disorder was reported at the scene, involving a small number of protesters at a police cordon. However, no injuries were reported and no arrests made.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aksoy, however, had baton marks across his stomach where he said police struck him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWithout reason they started attacking us,\u201d says Aksoy. \u201cFour or five of my friends were injured in the police attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Shubham Shukla, Ananya Das, Vinayak\u00a0<\/em><em>Shanka Sharma, Sam Westlake, Anrag Jain, Syed Abubaker, Yudan Li and Hannah Robertson contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries reported after Kurdish marchers clashed with police with half a mile remaining in their four-day walk from London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":38887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34,277],"coauthors":[618],"class_list":["post-38883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","tag-activism","tag-human-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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