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‘Arbitrary’ arrests being used to silence student opposition: Parti Quebecois The historic scope of the unrest in Quebec was illustrated in surreal scenes and statistics Thursday: more people were detained within a few hours — at least 650 of them, in mass roundups — than were arrested in the entire October Crisis.More than 2,500 people have been arrested in a months-long dispute that has catapulted the province onto international news pages.That is at least five times the number jailed during the 1970 FLQ crisis that saw martial law declared in Quebec.“That’s where the Quebec Liberal party has taken us: mass arrests, more often than not arbitrary ones, to silence opposition,” said Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois.

‘Arbitrary’ arrests being used to silence student opposition: Parti Quebecois
The historic scope of the unrest in Quebec was illustrated in surreal scenes and statistics Thursday: more people were detained within a few hours — at least 650 of them, in mass roundups — than were arrested in the entire October Crisis.

More than 2,500 people have been arrested in a months-long dispute that has catapulted the province onto international news pages.

That is at least five times the number jailed during the 1970 FLQ crisis that saw martial law declared in Quebec.

“That’s where the Quebec Liberal party has taken us: mass arrests, more often than not arbitrary ones, to silence opposition,” said Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois.

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