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A Berlin court on Tuesday convicted a 22-year-old woman for chanting the controversial slogan From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free just days after the October 7 attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Tiergarten District Court handed the woman a 600 ($655) fine for condoning a criminal act by using the phrase at a demonstration in the Berlin neighbourhood of Neukölln on October 11. The judge explained that the use of the slogan so soon after the October 7 attacks effectively constituted an endorsement of the atrocity and a denial of Israels right to ex