It has been more than five months since an activist was arrested over incendiary comments praising Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel at a pro-Palestinian protest in Vancouver earlier this year.
The province’s prosecution service is now facing questions about why it is taking so long to decide whether to approve hate speech charges against Charlotte Kates.
Kates serves as the international coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a group that’s listed as a terrorist organization in Germany and the Netherlands, a designation some political leaders in Canada want applied here as well.
She was arrested after an April 29 speech at the Vancouver Art Gallery in which she a crowd in chants of “Long live October 7th,” and called for the delisting of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and several other groups as terrorist organizations.
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