AlborotoOne more person has been arrested this morning in Barcelona over the riots in that same city during last March 29 general strike. The arrested person, a 21 year old female, has been taken to the Travessera de les Corts police station and will be brought to court tomorrow. This is the arrest number 114 in relation with the general strike. More info as it comes.
Source: barcelona.indymedia.org
It has been reported that russian antifascist Pjotr Silajev has been detained in Madrid, here is a report about his current situation:
Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev is still arrested in Madrid. Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days!
The Spanish police arrested Silajev in Granada because of request from Interpol on the 21st of august. Contrary to the expectations, he was not released in a trial in Madrid on the 22nd of august, even though the Finnish embassy had provided all the papers concerning his asylum and right to stay in the country. The court wouldnt comment the case. The Spanish police said that he only had a Russian passport when he was arrested. It is not clear how the Finnish state will react to the arrest.The Moscow Times interviewed Tanya Lokshina from The Human Rights Watch, who said that the Spanish state does not have to take into concideration the asylum from Finland and are free to send him back to Russia. This does not seem possible. The Finnish YLE news has interviewed the head of the immigration office Esko Repo who said that all the European Union countries are committed to not sending people to countries where they might face prosecution.
The lawyer of Silajev said the situation looks bad.
The Moscow Times said that the hardening line of the Russian government towards protests can lead to even more cases where people need to flee the country. The case of Silajev can be connected to other cases where people who had fled the country have been tried to be sent back.
Silajev was granted asylum from Finland in april of this year. The reason was the continuing political prosecution in Russia. The Russian Federation wants him convicted for demonstrations against a highway in the Khimki region outside Moscow. Among other protests, the house of the city council was attacked and some people throw stones and fireworks in the building in 2010.
The hunt of Silajev seems to be the last resort for the prosecutor to convict someone from the Khimki protests. Last year Aleksey Gaskarov, who was arrested for months, was releassed of all charges and Maxim Solopov received a two year sentence for hooliganism. The third suspect Denis Solopov has received an asylum from the Netherlands.
The Moscow Times have said that the mayor of Khimki Vladimir Strelchenko resigned last week because of pressure from the new governor of Moscow. Strelchenko is suspected of organising attacks against the protesters who were resisting the building of the highway.
We are asking for solidarity from our comrades in Madrid and other parts of the Spanish state! Support our anarchist and antifascist comrade!
Spread the word!
Taken from Finnish anarchist web page Takku.net
Juan Pablo Torroija, an Argentinian squatter living in the town of Girona (Catalonia), was arrested last month. A few hours after the arrest he ended up in hospital, where he died. According to police, he hanged himself in his cell, but the beaten marks on his body and the fact there was no fracture on his neck prove we may be in front of a new case of police torture and assassination. A gathering has been called for August 9 to demand explanations and denounce the killing. Below is a statement by comrades from Girona:
Juan Pablo, from what we could reconstruct, was arrested on July 10 or 11 at night by a joint patrol of local police and Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) at the Noon street of Girona, although we don’t know why. He is wildly beaten and taken to a police station in town, and enters hospital on July 11, in severe condition.
According to police statements, Juan Pablo had tried to hang himself at the police station. Police never informed of his arrest and the following hospitalization neither to any relative nor the phone numbers listed in his legal residence in Spain, which means that Juan Pablo stayed four days alone while being heavily injured.
The only person who managed to find out what had happened was a friend of Juan Pablo, that turned up at the Vista Alegre police station (Girona) where they told him that Juan Pablo Torroija was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Trueta hospital for an alleged suicide attempt in the cells of that same police station. This friend managed to see Juan Pablo at the hospital and has now explained that he was brutally beaten on the head, the ribs of his left side, on both arms, on the legs and with all the his neck full of marks, as if they were traumas. All the beaten parts were covered by a white tape as a way to hide the injuries. No doctor wanted to give any explanations about the events, and they only told him he had irreversible damage by asphyxia and they believed he would not survive.
Juan Pablo died a day later (July 14), alone. His body was taken to the Mémora funeral home and given to the Court No 1 of Girona. Neither his family nor the Argentine Consulate or, obviously, the public opinion, were informed of his arrest and death.
We denounce the number of big irregularities in the process that ended up with the death of Juan Pablo, the lack of communication by the judicial authorities, the statements made by Juan Pablo’s friends, who report a situation of persecution, harassment, detention and torture in the police station, the evident irregularities in the autopsy presented and and the speed they have managed to the have the case closed, with the intention of having to repatriate the body. And we demand explanations, responsabilities to be clarified and the end of police impunity and state terrorism.
Not everyone is here: Juan Pablo is missing!
The police tortures and murders!
Stop police police immunity
One of us is touched, all of us are touched
Gathering – Thursday 9 at 20:00 in Vi square
For more information in English: The death of an Argentinian squatter
Source: barcelona.indymedia.org
On August 15, 2004 our friend and comrade Roger was stabbed in the neck while he was defending his neighbourhood from a group of neonazis who had freely gone that afternoon around the neighbourhood assaulting many neighbours. Four months later, Roger died after waking up from a coma and fighting like a lion for his life. From him we keep his strength, his creativity, and of course, his determination.
THE REST IS JUST ANGER, ANGER, ANGER!
Demonstration – Wednesday 15th of August at 19:00 in Metro Fontana
Source: barcelona.indymedia.org
Take off your hands from Amadeu’s life
“The struggle must go on and we people should not give up. Day after day struggle and going on no matter what happens. If you don’t give up you can win, if you give up you have already lost. It’s worth to keep on fighting” – Amadeu Casellas, 2010
FREEDOM FOR AMADEU
Amadeu Casellas was kidnapped inside the State’s prisons for 24 years, eight of them served illegaly as the State itself admitted. His stance of resistance and denunciation (tortures, prison corruption…) had a lot to do with it. After his release in march 2010, the nightmare comes back now two years later with the surrealistic orders he has received this month in order to serve a 3 years sentence. The State wasn’t satisfied enough with jailing our comrade for decades, and now wants to do so again. They want him captive, in silence and subordinated but we won’t let them play with his freedom once again. For the destruction of prisons!
SOLIDARITY IS STRONGER THAN THEIR CELLS
Source: barcelona.indymedia.org/media
