French activist Martine Landry is facing jail and a fine after she was charged with “facilitating the entry of two illegal foreign minors”. Her crime: having taken care of and escorted these two children from the Italian border post to the border post on the French side. She will be tried in Nice on Monday 8th
Tag: Repression
Spain: Court Gives 12 Rappers 2 Years Jail Each for Performing a Song
Twelve rappers from the group La Insurgencia were sentenced to two years and a day of jail each for “supporting terrorism” in their lyrics. The court also ordered them to pay fines of 4,500 Euro each, and banned them from running for public office for nine years. The trial came a year after the police
Spycops Sexually Targeted Women From the Start
Over at least 25 years, a number of undercover police officers had entered into intimate relationships with members of targeted activist groups. Several women were deceived into having relationships with undercover cops. In some cases they proposed marriage or fathered children with protesters who were unaware their partner was a police officer. Various legal actions followed,
Russia: Anarchist Prisoner Dmitry Buchenkov Flees the Country
It was confirmed that at the beginning of November, Russian anarchist prisoner Dmitry Buchenkov has fled the country. Buchenkov stands accused of participating in mass riots and assaulting police officers at a protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in May 2012. The rally was one of a series of large opposition protests
Brazil: Neoliberal drift and repression of popular movements
José Luis Carretero Miramar writes on recent Brazilian state crackdowns against anarchists amid increasing fascist confidence, and how social movements are rising to meet it. The social and political situation in Brazil is increasingly compromised. Since Michel Temer’s ascent to power through an institutional and palatial coup the main BRICS representative in Latin America has
Occupation of General Directorate of State Forests in Warsaw, Poland
Twenty two people were arrested yesterday during the occupation of the General Directorate of State Forests in Warsaw, Poland. The action was taken in protest against Directorate’s decision to start logging of Bialowieza Forest in Northern Poland: the last remaining part of European primeval forest. Both main entrance and main hall were occupied. Outside of
Iran: Sohail Arabi thirst strike briefly suspended after seizure
Long-term anarchist political prisoner Sohail Arabi briefly started drinking water again on Thursday having experienced a seizure, one week into his total hunger and thirst strike. Sohail, who has been imprisoned for writing “sacrilegious” essays on Facebook and for “insulting the supreme leader” of Iran, had already been on a lengthy hunger strike over torture
Catalonia: Calls for solidarity as general strike looms
Anarchists in Catalonia are backing a region-wide general strike for October 3rd and are calling for solidarity actions against the Spanish government as it brutally represses Catalan independence activists. The CNT anarcho-syndicalist union has agreed to join the strike as anarchists nationwide put up statements condemning Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s decision to send thousands
G20: A comrade writes from a Hamburg Prison
In the below passage, one of the people detained in Hamburg during July’s G20 Protests talks about his imprisonment, the incarceration system and other arenas where anarchists are facing State repression. It’s been almost a month-and-a-half since I was imprisoned during the 12th G20 summit in Hamburg, in a city that was besieged and taken
Durban: 67 years after Apartheid evictions, ANC violently attacks Cato Manor occupation
Two people have been blinded this week in violent reprisals from State and local ANC-linked thugs as they try to push land occupiers out of Cato Manor in Durban, South Africa. The relatively new occupation, organised with shackdwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), has been shaken by the extreme violence, which saw Smiso Maphumulo shot in the eye
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