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The corporate media were in the same boat

imc | 26.07.2001 12:28


This is why the story has managed to get out - because too many corporate media journalists got a beating
too.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1457000/1457920.stm

Thursday, 26 July, 2001, 11:45 GMT 12:45 UK
G8 Britons tell of police 'brutality'

The protesters may consider seeking compensation

Five Britons held by Italian police after the G8 demonstrations in Genoa have described how they were beaten unconscious by officers, and had to endure inhumane conditions.
Four of the activists arrived back at Heathrow on Thursday after being released without charge and deported from Milan.

The fifth, still in hospital in Genoa with serious injuries, told the BBC he feared for his life during a brutal attack by police on Saturday.

Police indiscriminately batoned those present, mainly young people offering no resistance

Jonathan Neale
Statement on behalf of four protesters
The Italian Embassy told BBC News Online the cases were being investigated by judges in Genoa.

As Jonathan Blair, 38, from Newport, Daniel McQuillan,

imc
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Tell The Truth!

26.07.2001 17:38

Only now, when corporate media gets attacked, is the assault considered unjust. For years these journalists have prostituted themselves to the Tabloids and Broadsheets, perpetuating lies, propaganda and contempt, for people with a conscience who protest against Capitalist Tyranny. Calling us "violent anarchists," who provoke poor police officers, armed with batons, tear-gas, plastic bullets, water-cannon and now live ammunition, they have justified our repression in the eyes of the blind sheeple.

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