Ghassan Abu Sittah
 Ghassan Abu Sittah  (surgeon, political activist) | |
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Rector of Glasgow University |
Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who gave media interviews from Gaza in October and November 2023, providing a powerful first-person account of the extreme challenges confronting Palestinian medical workers as they desperately battled to treat the wounded amid Israel’s genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.[1]
Banned in Germany
In April 2024, hundreds of police officers broke up a Palestine Congress in Berlin, Germany. The Ministry of the Interior banned former Greek finance minister and chairman of the pan-European party DiEM25 Yanis Varoufakis from entering the country, together with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a medical doctor and rector of Glasgow University. Sittah had worked with Doctors Without Borders in Gaza hospitals during the war and testified at the International Court of Justice, where Germany stands accused of aiding and abetting genocide.[2]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights | Article | 27 August 2024 | Robert Stevens | Now, in a move that would have been agreed to by PM Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Labour has pioneered the use of an amendment to the Terrorism Act passed by the Tories to once again attempt to silence and criminalise a journalist and political activist. The same course is being pursued by governments throughout the world. |
