Chris Minns doubles down on support for NSW police, stating officers would ‘never have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot’
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The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says he will not apologise to the Muslim community after police disrupted a group of men praying during a Sydney protest against the visiting Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.
Muslim groups including the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) and the Australian Federal Imams Council (Afic) have called on the premier and the NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, to issue a public apology.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/12/nsw-premier-chris-minns-no-apology-muslim-police-sydney-protest-ntwnfb
Author : Penry Buckley
Publish date : 2026-02-12 02:30:00
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