PAVIA - FIRST RELEASES OF G8 PRISONERS
max | 25.07.2001 16:13
http://italia.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=8211&group=webcast people is trying to approach the released, but they're stopped by the police. the released, although A) they have been ... err.. released and B) the arrests itself have just been declared illegal by the italian GIP (=judge), are being forced into the DIGOS (secret police) cars down to the police, who hasn't been able to explain clearly why.
also, reports on the spanish press of police physical and mental brutalities in jails:
http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20010724&xref=20010724elpepiint_7&type=Tes&anchor=elpepiint and news of Compulsory Medical Treatment (i.e psychopharmacological treatment) for all those with "unstable behaviours" while beaten up in jails...
Berlusconi, what a nice bloke, eh?
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Irish Times Reports Police Brutality in G8
25.07.2001 19:20
Full account of the violent beatings of non-violent protesters in classic Fascist Police State fashion. Suit to be brought to the EU Human Rights Court. Graphic picture of bruises.
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"We were there for about 15 minutes when suddenly there was a line of police in plain clothes, with batons and helmets coming towards us."
At this point, he said, the crowd began to run away but were knocked to the ground and arrested. Mark said he was dragged into the back of an unmarked car and driven, with a guard on either side of him holding his head down, to "a sort of detention centre in the mountains".
"They were thumping, shouting and beating me in the groin."
Patrick was arrested and brought to a police station in Genoa, where he was strip searched and "not beaten too badly there - just smacks and stuff". He was also driven to the centre outside Genoa where they were held in a cell with about six other protesters.
"We were put facing a wall with our legs splayed and hands up on the wall," Mark said. "Then one guard came in, took off his gloves and rolled up his sleeves and just started pounding and kicking into us, shouting at us in Italian."
They were taken to be fingerprinted and interviewed and taken back to the cell where they were put against the wall and beaten if they talked or if their hands slipped, they said. At about midnight they were taken with six others to the remand centre at Alessandria.
They were held there overnight and released at about midnight on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Italian embassy would not comment on the allegations last night.
-UNSNIP-
Papa Smurf
Irish Times Reports Police Brutality in G8
25.07.2001 19:58
Full account of the violent beatings of non-violent protesters in classic Fascist Police State fashion. Suit to be brought to the EU Human Rights Court. Graphic picture of bruises.
-SNIP-
"We were there for about 15 minutes when suddenly there was a line of police in plain clothes, with batons and helmets coming towards us."
At this point, he said, the crowd began to run away but were knocked to the ground and arrested. Mark said he was dragged into the back of an unmarked car and driven, with a guard on either side of him holding his head down, to "a sort of detention centre in the mountains".
"They were thumping, shouting and beating me in the groin."
Patrick was arrested and brought to a police station in Genoa, where he was strip searched and "not beaten too badly there - just smacks and stuff". He was also driven to the centre outside Genoa where they were held in a cell with about six other protesters.
"We were put facing a wall with our legs splayed and hands up on the wall," Mark said. "Then one guard came in, took off his gloves and rolled up his sleeves and just started pounding and kicking into us, shouting at us in Italian."
They were taken to be fingerprinted and interviewed and taken back to the cell where they were put against the wall and beaten if they talked or if their hands slipped, they said. At about midnight they were taken with six others to the remand centre at Alessandria.
They were held there overnight and released at about midnight on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Italian embassy would not comment on the allegations last night.
-UNSNIP-
Papa Smurf