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Davos: Independent Media Targeted, Harassed by Police

Davos IMC / hfx_ben | 25.01.2001 23:25

Free speech is the latest casualty in the Swiss government's crackdown on the constitutional right to public dissent and free assembly as the police make it forcefully clear that public scrutiny of their ongoing repressive activities will not be allowed. This was the lesson violently expressed to 8 journalists on Wednesday.

"On Wednesday afternoon, a van with 7 Indymedia journalists and 1 Geneva-based commercial newspaper journalist inside was stopped, detained, and searched several times by a gang of police wearing maskes before and after they were blocked from traveling to Davos. Additionally, equipment and materials inside the van were ransacked, individuals were body-searched and interrogated, and a press pass was confiscated."
see  http://davos.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=203 for this story.
For other stories, including Police Advise Davos Hotels to Turn in Certain Persons to the Police, see davos.indymedia.org, IMC Davos, Switzerland.
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Freedom Now!

28.01.2001 16:16

This is an utter outrage, State repression at it's diabolical worst! One gets the feeling a total ban on truth is on the horizon with the internet being the next casualty, subject to censorship! We can deny and defy this, all we need is 'global solidarity' they can't detain or kill all 6 billion of us! Can they?

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