Grasp Butcher Salman & LouLou’s: The protests I photographed on Wednesday 2nd October 2019 have been conveniently shut to one another in London’s Mayfair. I went to {photograph} a candlelit vigil for Saudi journalist Jamal Khasnhoggi on the Saudi Embassy (and likewise discovered a counter-protest) after which joined the IWGB protesting at unique Mayfair membership LouLou’s a couple of yards away.
Justice For Jamal Khashoggi
Representatives of English PEN, Writers at Danger, Reporters With out Borders and PEN Worldwide had come to carry a candlelit vigil outdoors the Saudi Embassy on Curzon Road on the primary anniversary of the horrific homicide of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s contained in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist, dissident, writer, columnist for Center East Eye and The Washington Publish, and a normal supervisor and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab Information Channel.
Khashoggi was final seen coming into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul the place he had gone to get papers for his deliberate marriage. Contained in the consulate he was met by a staff of probably eight males despatched by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) to assassinate him. He was strangled after which his physique was minimize into items utilizing a bone noticed so it may simply be faraway from the constructing and disposed off.
Turkish intelligence bugs within the constructing recorded each the planning of the homicide and its execution. MbS denied any information of the plans previous to the homicide, however few if any imagine it may have occurred with out his authorisation.
Reverse the silent vigil was a loud protest with music and speeches funded by the Saudi Embassy with banners and expensively produced placards in addition to massive LED illuminated screens in help of the Crown Prince.
They denied MbS had any involvement within the killing and held enormous photos of him in addition to others lauding his achievements in giving help to Yemen, supporting charitable foundations and preventing Islamic radicalism and extremism. The didn’t point out the conflict in Yemen, his help for Wahhabism, the ridiculous kidnapping of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri (meant to weaken him, the nation united behind him and MbS was compelled to launch him), and positively not the barbaric torture, homicide and dismemberment of Khashoggi.
One placard said ‘SAUDI CROWN PRINCE WORKING TO BUILD A MODERN NATION AND MAKE HIS PEOPLE MORE CIVILISED. Barbaric practices like torturing and sawing up your opponents hardly appears a approach to make his folks extra civilised. MbS now to many means Grasp butcher Salman.
Justice For Jamal Khashoggi
Saudis help killer Prince MBS
IWGB at Mayfair membership Loulou’s
I joined the Impartial Employees’ union of Nice Britain (IWGB) Cleaners and Services Department who had come to protest at unique Mayfair personal membership LouLou’s for kitchen porters to be paid a residing wage, be handled with dignity and respect and given respectable phrases and circumstances together with correct sick pay, holidays and pension contributions.
Police and safety males had closed off the part of avenue with the doorway to the membership and the protesters have been harassed by police and pushed roughly by safety workers employed by the membership throughout the protest.
Few of the rich prospects being escorted into the membership took the leaflets the protesters have been providing or appeared to have any sympathy with the exploited employees on the membership.
After protesting for a while on Trebeck Road at one finish of the blocked part of Shepherd’s Market they marched noisly across the block to the opposite finish in Hertford Road and continued the noisy protest there.
In December 2019 LouLou’s made a suggestion to the IWGB together with paying its kitchen porters the London Dwelling Wage from January 2020, 5 days sick pay, and common quarterly consultations with the union on phrases and circumstances. Though it didn’t meet all the unions calls for additional deliberate strikes have been known as off.
Many extra photos on My London Diary at IWGB at Mayfair membership Loulou’s.
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