"If You Don't Hear the Order, There's No Crime of Disobedience," Says Counsel for Arrested Protesters
Carmo Afonso, lawyer for three of the 55 protesters detained in the housing protests, says his clients were asleep, so they won't have heard the police order.
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The defendants are suspected of disobedience, for allegedly having resisted when the PSP withdrew the tents of the Acampada de Lisboa da Pra a D. Pedro IV.
<p>Carmo Afonso, lawyer for three of the 55 protesters detained in the housing protests, says his clients were asleep, so they won't have heard the police order.</p>
Counsel for the defence of at least three demonstrators explains that the police intervention focused on people who were sleeping and who did not hear any order of dispersion.
Three of the protesters for the right to housing detained in Rossio will reject provisional suspension of the trial, going to trial for the crime of resistance. The defense claims that the activists were asleep and did not hear the PSP's order to disperse to remove the tents from the site.
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