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Organizers counter that civil disobedience is central to their mission and vowed to continue holding weekly vigils outside the facility, calling the arrests a sign that we are in “a spiritual emergency.”

Communications Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi on Sunday criticised "calls for insurrection, ghost towns or civil disobedience, which are likely to endanger the life of the nation, social peace, and economic development".

“These are people who were, out of conscience, making a decision to engage in an act of civil disobedience,” she told the judge.

Antifa -- whose name has roots in socialist groups in 1930s Germany that opposed Hitler -- has a track record of confronting right-wing groups and engaging in civil disobedience.

The letter, addressed to white clergymen critical of King’s anti-segregation protests, defended nonviolent civil disobedience as a tactic in the fight for racial justice.