Despite multiple court rulings in his favour, Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi’s detention continues under shifting legal justifications ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Despite judicial rulings supporting his release, Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi, a Saudi dissident and former member of the pro-democracy Bees Army, remains held in detention in Bulgaria since October 2021. Bulgarian authorities, primarily the State Agency for National Security
In Turkey, Serbia and their neighbours, mass mobilisations are rising to challenge corrupt regimes ~ Rob Latchford ~ Mass mobilisations in Turkey have seen tens of thousands on the streets for almost a week, an uprising inflamed by the arrest of the opposition-party Mayor of Istanbul.
The legislature has rushed through a law that mirrors Russia’s notorious “gay propaganda” legislation ~ from You Are Not (A)lone ~ In the heart of Sofia, under a sky that couldn’t decide between sun and rain, a rainbow flag fluttered defiantly.
Report from Are You Syrious?: Borders are dangerous.
Bulgaria: Chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev says of the state of migration in Bulgaria that: “Hospitals in Burgas are full of unidentified dead persons that hunters find in the forest.
If we are to try to identify some of the most important aspects of the history of the Balkans, we cannot but point out the persistent vision of a surprisingly consistent utopia…~Andrej Grubacic[efn_note] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrej-grubacic-don-t-mourn-balkanize#toc16[/efn_note] The Commune, as a political form, was a reoccurring theme within Bulgaria’s liberatory movement that fought against the Ottoman Empire, suggesting
Bulgarian Antifa held a protest in Sofia under the slogan ‘No Nazis on Our Streets, No to Fortress Europe” on 17th February against the annual fascist demo commemorating Hristo Lukov: a World War 2 politician, minister of war, and a supporter of Nazi Germany.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
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