A 22-year-old activist has been convicted of condoning a crime for chanting the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at a rally in the German capital Berlin, in a move her defence team slammed as a suppression of free speech. Ava Moayeri, a German-Iranian national, was arrested just days after Israel’s war on Gaza began on 7 October after she was accused of “condoning the assault by Hamas” when she recited the chant on an 11 October protest near the Sonnenallee boulevard in the Neukölln district, which the activist co-organised. Before the trial started, Moayeri said in a…