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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan with RFI

French climate protest group vows to fight on despite order to disband

A protester holds a placard reading "A revolution cannot be dissolved" during a rally against the plan to dissolve the environmental movement "Les Soulevements de la Terre" (Uprisings of the Earth), in Paris, on April 19, 2023. © Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP

Protests are planned and a legal battle is taking shape after the French government outlawed a climate activist group that it accuses of instigating violence and vandalism at demonstrations around France.

Environmentalists and human rights watchdogs have called it an attack on freedom of association and the right to protest.

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