Gaza activist on speaking tour in France detained, awaiting deportation

Palestinian activist Mariam Abudaqa, who came to France for a speaking tour in September, was taken into custody on Wednesday night in Paris after a court approved her deportation, her lawyer said.
Wednesday’s ruling by the Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest administrative court, said 72-year-old Abudaqa, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was “likely to seriously disturb public order.”
Abudaqa, who had been put under house arrest for four days in October, had said she planned to leave Paris for Egypt on Saturday.
Her lawyer said, she is currently being held in a police station in Paris.
The French government has cracked down on expressions of solidarity with Palestine in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants who killed 1,400 people according to Israeli tallies. Some protests have been banned and events cancelled, and French authorities have accused some pro-Palestine groups of condoning terrorism.