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moscow: manifestation infront of the swedish embassy

knat | 05.06.2002 18:37

Moscow, 5th of june, 2.30 pm met about 20 people infront of the swedish embassy to show their protest against political repression, especially against those repressions happened in Gothenburg almost one year ago.


Moscow, 5th of june, 2.30 pm met about 20 people infront of the swedish embassy to show their protest against political repression, especially against those repressions happened in Gothenburg almost one year ago. They used creative means to express themselves, like different costumes, which made them look like prisoners, while each of them had different cyrillic letters on their breasts, forming the words: “against repression”. The particpiants belong to several groups, so there were moscower artists, the radical ecological “rainbow keepers” and ”autonomous action". In the beginning the police was kind of supriced at least there were not more than ten in different uniforms, so maybe just the usual safestuff of the embassy, but there were also quite unfriendly dogs, who helped showing power. And there was a strange car, if it existed in D, it was probably used for the police-museum, but here its intention was being the prisoners car, as was noticed later. The whole action took about 10 minutes, most of them were spend with discussing why we had to change the streetside. The Policemen stayed almost calm, probably because mass-media was absent, just some indpendent journalists were around.

But in the end they took obligatory 3 male persons, so they were held to be the organizers. For some of them means this being in prison for the 2nd time this week, so at the 28th of may almost all participants of a manifestation in moskow, critisizing globalization and russia-us-nato policy, were sent to prison for some hours by using violence. This time they did not use theire weapons, at least not outside of the strange car. So hoping the best for them.

knat