{"id":365714,"date":"2026-02-10T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365714"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:53:45","slug":"police-disperse-praying-muslim-men-during-sydney-protest-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365714","title":{"rendered":"Police Disperse Praying Muslim Men During Sydney Protest Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The incident happened on February 9 during a pro-Palestine rally against Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=president-herzog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"President Herzog\">President Isaac Herzog<\/a>&#8216;s visit, following a deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bondi-beach-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bondi Beach Massacre\">antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSW Police issued move-on orders after speakers called for an unlawful march, leading to the forceful breakup of Sheikh Wesam Charkawi&#8217;s group praying Maghrib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities described a volatile &#8216;riot&#8217; with assaults on officers, 27 arrests, and pepper spray, while over 100 Muslim organizations decried it as an abuse of power and Islamophobia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event has fueled debate on public order, religious freedom, and police tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event has fueled debate on public order, religious freedom, and police tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":365715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,858],"tags":[19484,2139],"class_list":["post-365714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-israel","tag-president-herzog","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365716,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365714\/revisions\/365716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}