Human rights activist Salah Said shares his ordeal of frequent police visits to his home in Berlin.
Police raided Palestinian human rights activist Salah Said’s home in Berlin on the early morning of March 22. /Photo courtesy of Salah Said
Salah Said, Palestinian activist based in Berlin, is one among those who have received the police at their doorsteps. The first two times – between December 2023 and February 2024– they issued the letter, the contents of which read like a veiled threat. On the third occasion, Said tells“Eight officers of the German Criminal Investigation Police came to my home with a search warrant,” Said says, “I am still in shock and am trying to comprehend what has happened.
The police intervention with the new dimension of interfering with people’s private spaces has led to the climate of fear in the country.During the first police visit in late December last year, Said says he was told that the law-enforcement authorities had profiled him for his pro-Palestine solidarity work and social media posts.
“Our whole life story is about being refugees, fleeing wars and not really having any place to go to feel safe, where he could build our lives,” he says.In 2012, he was awarded the democracy prize by Waltraud-Netzer-Jugendpreis der Stiftung"Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie" for his non-profit organisations World Citizen.
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