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COP21: Security crackdown in Paris sees climate change protesters under house arrest
2015-11-28 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: French climate change activists have been placed under house arrest ahead of the opening of the UN climate change conference in Paris. Public demonstrations are banned in France under the state of emergency that was declared after the Paris terrorist attacks two week ago, in which 130 people were killed. Green groups have described the move as "an abuse of power" but the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the activists were suspected of planning violent protests. "These 24 people...
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