Omar Hamed

Omar Hamed is an anarchist political activist based in Aotearoa New Zealand who was arrested in the October 15 anti-terror raids.
Background
He was born in Greece to New Zealand and Palestinian parents, and raised on Auckland's North Shore.
Activism
He has told media that he gained his inspiration to become an activist from seeing his mother struggling to stop National and New Zealand First attacks on social welfare in the 1990s. and helps run an activist social center in Auckland called A Space Inside.
He was also a member of the Auckland Anarchist Collective. a youth advocacy group run by the Ministry of Youth Development, and Workers Party magazine The Spark.
Hamed is an editor at Indymedia Aotearoa.
October 2007 terror raids
One of seventeen people arrested in police raids that occurred in October 2007, it is alleged he was in possession of firearms in the Ruatoki Valley. He is currently facing three charges of illegal possession of a firearm and one of unlawful possession of Molotov cocktails.

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