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Social control and repression

3 people arrested after the L’H demonstration

Three people were arrested this morning at 4am in Hospitalet del Llobregat after the demonstration organised the day before in the same town. A solidarity gathering was organised at 9am in front of the Mossos d’Esquadra police station.

Update: first only two arrests were reported, now the number is three. The last one being a person who wasn’t even at the protest. All of them are still being held and will appear in court tomorrow morning, when two solidarity gatherings have been organised, one in front of the police station at 9am and another one in front of the town’s courthouse at 9:30am. Two of the detainees have reported tortures and a medical revision was denied. All of them from the CSO L’Astilla squat.

Update: The three comrades have been released with charges on public disorder.

Source: barcelona.indymedia.org

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Social control and repression

4 comrades were arrested in Gran Canaria

On October 3, a demonstration had been called in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria by the popular assembly of Gran Canaria against the new austerity measures, the labour reform and the increasing poverty in the Canary islands. At the end of the protest police arrested 4 people, acussing them of burning trash bins during the course of the demonstration. During the arrest at least one of the comrades was brutally beaten by police, and there were attempts to humiliate her repeatedly. The detainees were released two days after the arrest and were charged with damages and public disorder and will have to appear in court every month until the trial.

Source: anarquistasgc.net

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Capitalist crisis Speculation and squatting

Demonstration in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona): We’re taking back our dignity

We are fed up, fed up of the failure and the alienation of your education system, of dying in hospital queues, of banks always winning, of becoming homeless, of estate agents and city councils taking control of our neighbourhoods, of the torture happening inside your jails, of your state terrorism, of the deportation of our neighbours just for being from outside and poor, of living in order to work and working in order to live, of your mercenaries in uniform, of the acceptation of self-declared fascists inside your democratic system, proving all this is all a covered dictatorship.

That’s why we are TAKING BACK our hospitals and schools, our spaces, our houses, the solidarity, mutual aid, cooperativism, direct action, oru streets.

Let’s take back freedom, let’s take back the dignity

Rage assembly of L’H.

Source: barcelona.indymedia.org

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Capitalist crisis Direct actions

Videos of the 26S general strike in Iruñea

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Speculation and squatting

CSOA Casablanca quat in Madrid is evicted

Below is a brief statement from the assembly of the Casablanca squat in Madrid, which has been evicted in the early hours of today 19th of September. One person was arrested during the eviction, after 100 comrades had started gathering outside the building once the news of the eviction came out. This operation comes just a few days before the action planned around the Spanish parliament next week, and is suspected to be part of the ongoing repressive operations related to that upcoming demonstration. La Rimaia free university in Barcelona was also evicted back in May just one week before the May 12 demonstrations.

The assembly of the CSOA Casablanca, due to the eviction with no prior warning, in the morning of today 19th of September, announces:

-Its intention of going on with the social project that is carried out by the CSOA in the Lavapiés neighbourhood.

-A gathering against the eviction and in support of the project in the Lavapiés square this afternoon at 20:00h, where a statement by the assembly will be read.

Source: csocasablanca.org

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Capitalist crisis Direct actions Social control and repression

Arrests in Madrid after calling for the blockade of the Parliament

At least four people were arrested today 15th of September during a demonstration in Madrid by the yellow and pro-state trade unions CCOO-UGT against the latest austerity measures. During the course of the demonstration, a group of people attempted to place a banner calling for the blockade of the Parliament, scheduled for September 25. Cops then immediately attempted to stop the action and arrested its participants. Anarchosindicalist CNT and Solidaridad Obrera had called for an alternative demonstration.

Source: Periódico Diagonal

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Social control and repression

New arrest in Barcelona over 29M strike

One 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

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Antifascism Social control and repression

Russian antifascist arrested in Madrid

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

Source: indymedia.org.uk
Original source: takku.net