World
Indonesia: 86 families fight against new Yogyakarta airport development
July 27th: Some weeks ago, we reported that the Indonesian government, represented by the State Owned Enterprise PT.
Sweden: activist prevents deportation of a man to Afghanistan
July 24th: A young Swedish woman has managed to prevent a forced deportation by the Swedish immigration forces of a 52-year-old man to Afghanistan.
Iraq: 831 dead or injuried in anti-government protests
July 24th: According to the Baghdad-based war monitor Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, mass protests in Iraq had left 831 protesters killed and injured over the past 10 days.
Greece: occupied gym in Exarchia evicted and demolished
July 21st: On Tuesday morning Athens’ only squatted gym was evicted and demolished with a bulldozer.
France: Four people face charges for assisting refugees
July 18th: Four people were arrested for helping migrants cross the border into France. It is the latest case over citizens providing aid to refugees in France.
Netherlands: man fleeing homophobic violence denied asylum as he is ‘not gay enough’
July 17th: A man fleeing anti-gay violence has been denied asylum seeker status in the Netherlands based on an assessment by the IND (The Immigration and Naturalisation Department) which found him to be “not gay enough”: in this exact words.
Notes from the US: Racism enshrined in law
July 16th: Louis Further rounds up some of the key news from the US, including some nasty rulings coming down from the “pre” reactionary group which sitting before Trump imposes his vision for its future.
Greece: Pola Roupa sentenced to life plus 25 years imprisonment
July 13th: Pola Roupa, a member of Greek urban guerrila group Revolutionary Struggle, has been sentenced to life and 25 years imprisonment over the bomb attack on the Greek National Bank and the offices of the IMF in Athens in April 2014.
Dijon: large refugee squat evicted
July 12th: Yesterday early morning French police, with assistance from border police evicted the XXL Squat in Dijon, where about hundred asylum seekers lived.
Austria: 12-hour work day approved by the parliament
July 8th: With the votes of the coalition government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz’s conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Nationalist Liberal Party, as well as the votes of the neo-liberal opposition party NEW (New Austria), the Austrian Parliament approved the controversial law to allow 12-hour work days.
