FREEDOM of expression and the freedom of peaceful assembly are cornerstones of western civilisation, set down in The European Convention On Human Rights.
The people have a voice and they should be allowed to use it to decry injustice or hold those in power to account.
In June 1967, a demonstration in Berlin against the state visit of the Shah of Persia descended into chaos when baton-wielding police apparently charged the protesters, causing crowds to spill onto the streets.
One young man was needlessly shot and killed by police, galvanising mounting support for the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist student movement, which vehemently opposed Germany's perceived support of American imperialism during the Vietnam war.
Radicals within the movement formed their own splinter group and the Red Army Faction (RAF) was born, armed resistance fighters with a propensity for violence to challenge the country's political status quo.
The Baader Meinhof Complex relives this turbulent era in recent German history.
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