World Repression Newswire Archive

Reports of violence still coming out of Sudan's Darfur region – UN

01-02-2005 05:10 | Repression | World

Reports of violence continue to come out of Sudan's western Darfur region and several routes in South Darfur state are currently closed for United Nations movement because of ongoing insecurity, the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) said today.

Aust Community criticises Govt for 'crimes'

31-01-2005 22:56 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

The 'Community' is waiting for the prosecution of these offenders. The offenders of these premeditated, vicious and callous crimes should be charged with the offences they have been alleged to have committed. Mr Habib should complete a record of interview taken by the police.

Irish American Humanitarian Arrested by Israel

29-01-2005 23:37 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On Monday January 24, Israeli police arrested 41 year old Irish American ISM activist, Patrick O’Connor, on suspicion that he was carrying a fake passport. O’Connor was on his way to Jerusalem after planting olive tree seedlings with Palestinian, Israeli and international activists in the path of the Wall in the occupied village of Biddu. For the past year, Israeli and international activists have supported the villagers of Biddu through nonviolent protest and legal appeals in their struggle against the destruction of their farmland for the building of the Wall.

US military death rate in Iraq continues to speed up

28-01-2005 23:51 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

The US military death toll in Iraq is continuing to speed up.
It has been more or less steadily increasing since May 2003.
The last six months are all at or above the linear fit, suggesting
that the death rate might even be increasing faster than linear.

Torture complaints during the new spanish government

28-01-2005 17:44 | Repression | World

Terrible allegations of torture under the Rodríguez Zapatero government
Detainees denounced they were subjected to torture; they have described sessions of suffocation, electric shocks… and a young woman denounced she was raped with a loaded gun

cops threaten G8 repression

28-01-2005 12:44 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Repression | World

police are preparing to use submachine guns and rubber bullets to defend leaders of the G8 who will meet at gleeagles. they are carrying out training in a mock up village on the site of a closed down hsopital. the closed down law hospital, lanarkshire has been turned into a mock village, complete with its own names, in which to train riot squads.

Tatchell arrested in Holocaust Day asylum protest

“Never Again, today means not closing our doors to refugees fleeing persecution. Don’t let Michael Howard dishonour the victims of the Holocaust with his quotas for asylum seekers. Never Again means Never Again.”

Peter Tatchell arrested

Campaigner pleads for asylum seekers at Holocaust Memorial Day

Australian Govt Guilty of Crimes: Community

27-01-2005 05:37 | Repression | London | World

But no one can say the same about the act of taunting Mamdouh Habib in Australia before he was kidnapped by the US and then tortured. Nor can they say the same about the Australian Governments complicity in his torture by the US.

Ordeal of a Gay Asylum Seeker

Ramzi Isalam tells how he escaped murder by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, and is battling against the Home Office to win asylum in Britain

CIPO-RFM (Mexico): Latest info on repression

26-01-2005 10:02 | Repression | World

Press release explaining who and what The Consejo IndÌgena Popular de Oaxaca ìRicardo Flores MagÛnî CIPO-RFM is, along with current and uptodate information about Raul Gatica, whos life is currently in danger due to the mexican governments desire to silence our voice. See also our wbsight: www.nodo50.org/cipo

What we desire besides spreading general awareness about our movement, is contacts in other nations, in NGOs, activist groups, solidarity networks, and media to put immediate pressure on the Mexican government in case of an
imminent human rights crises. So tell a friend, write a song, call your MP, please help us build a support network for this very important movement.
We would like to have you on our list of contacts to keep you informed of any developments and to have as an emergency contact for urgent information.

Luke Woodyard (

luke@skorga.org)
CIPO - RFM (English corespondent)

"shadows of occupation": third balatacamp.net film from Palestine

Shadows of Occupation [2005; 3min]

"Balata camp children prepare a shadow puppet theatre production. During the performance, the characters of their imagination move from the screen onto the streets."
Download it now from www.balatacamp.net

ANC COUNCILLORS-MEMBERS DISRUPT APF-SECC MEETING

25-01-2005 17:40 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ANC COUNCILLORS AND MEMBERS DISRUPT SECC COMMUNITY MEETING IN EMDENI, SOWETO AND THREATEN ACTIVISTS WITH VIOLENCE IF THEY CONTINUE TO OPPOSE PRE-PAID WATER METERS CHARGES LAID AGAINST ANC COUNCILLORS IN SOWETO FOR ASSAULTING APF/SECC ACTIVIST - WILL JUSTICE BE CARRIED OUT?

The 10 best Writers on the Net

23-01-2005 05:37 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Ten Best Writers
On The Internet
Always Read The Stories These People Write

Kurds Refugees deported from Japan

21-01-2005 09:03 | Migration | Repression | World

calling sollidarity on deportation of refugees in Japan .

MASSACRE in the Kenyan gulag: The True Horror of BRITISH COLONIAL Rule

20-01-2005 00:29 | Repression | World

THE DARKEST SECRET OF A DYING EMPIRE

Hundreds of thousands of civilians put in camps. Torture, starvation, rape, mutilation, and mass executions. Nazi Germany? No, Kenya under British rule.

Caroline Elkins exposes a shameful tale of colonial abuse.

Battle of Beanfield 20th Anniversary

19-01-2005 17:25 | Indymedia | Repression | World

Dont forget!

Visiting Palestine III

16-01-2005 00:54 | Repression | London | World

Third post from one of the ISM activists gone to Palestine from London.

To see the whole text of this entry, go to

http://www.winstanleys.org/archive/resistance-in-biddu/

To see the whole blog, go to

http://www.winstanleys.org/

Tom Hurndall remembered.

13-01-2005 21:22 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Candlelit vigil one year after Tom's death.

Hebron children arrested for playing football in the street.

Internationals witness the arrest of children in Hebron whose heinous crime was for playing football in a deserted street.

Monday 03/01/2005

Myself and three other internationals arrive in Hebron to liaise with local land action groups to fight the land seizures as more illegal settlements are built and the plans for the apartheid wall continue.

Hebron has been a divided city since the implementation of the Hebron accords which sliced it into areas H1 and H2, the population of over 120,000 people is all Palestinian Muslim apart from 500 or so Israeli settlers who are protected around the clock by 1200 Israeli soldiers.