Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.
In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.
I’ll be honest. She wasn’t that when she started. She was just a kid that became an activist and basically sacrificed her childhood to become the new face of activism
hmm, honestly I’m not aware of her beginning, but I assume people were overlooking the “kid” part when judging her ?
She’s a 22 year old right now. She was doing speeches back from as early as 2018. That put her in front of the stand as young as 15 yo. You saw her speaking and you saw child.