Archive for the ‘arrest’ tag
repression in austria
from indymedia.org:
At around 7:00 am on May 21, 2008, members of the Austrian elite police force (WEGA)
stormed several apartments across the country. Some of the residents were woken up
in their beds at gunpoint. A total of twentythree (23) apartments, houses and offices
were searches in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Tirol. In many of the apartments
the WEGA kicked in the doors. The officers stormed the apartments like in bad
Hollywood movies. Only after the residents had been intimidated, ”secured” on the
wall and/or put in handcuffs did the police start the searches.
All the arrestees are active in the animal rights movement in Austria.
The offices of at least 4 animal rights group were search by police.
The 10 people, a few of which are currently on hunger strike, are
still in custody. On a bail hearing on June 6th, the judge decided to
keep them in jail for at least 4 weeks further.
There have been solidarity demonstrations in Austria and around
the world to demand the immediate release of the activists and
for the authorities to drop the charges.
domestic anti-war arrests on the rise
from infoshop.org/inews:
“There have been over 15,000 arrests for resistance to war since 2002 in the United States. There were large numbers right after the run up to and invasion of Iraq. Recently, arrests have begun climbing again. Though arrests are a small part of anti-war organizing, their rise is an indicator of increasing resistance.
The information comes from the Nuclear Resister, a newsletter that has been reporting detailed arrest information on peace activists and other social justice campaigns since 1980. Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa, publishers of the Nuclear Resister, document arrests by name and date based on information collected from newspapers across the country and from defense lawyers and peace activists.
Since 2002, the Nuclear Resister has documented anti-war arrests for protestors each year:
- 2002 – 1800 arrests
- 2003 – 6072 arrests
- 2004 – 2440 arrests
- 2005 – 975 arrests
- 2006 – 950 arrests
- 2007 – 2272 arrests
- 2008 – 810 as of May”
Palestine Solidarity Project Co-Founder Kidnapped at 4AM
from the PSP website (palestinesolidarityproject.org)
This morning, Friday April 11, at 4 am Israeli security forces (Shabak) raided the home of Mousa Abu Maria and kidnapped him. Mousa co-founded the Palestine Solidarity Project and has been a supporter of non-violence for several years. Mousa was last in the custody of the Shabak in 1999 when he was held for more than 3 months and tortured after which he spent more than a week in the hospital. His current location is not known but we will send updates as soon as new information is available. Please consider making a donation to PSP to cover his anticipated legal costs.
