Deportations in Iceland!
SavingIceland | 18.08.2005 18:29 | Ecology | Repression
Deportation papers have been issued for 21 people involved in the blockade at the Karahnjukar dam construction site on the 19th July and an action at the Alcoa alluminium smelter plant in the Reyðarfjörður on the 4th August. At the first action no one was formally arrested and no charges were brought against them. At the Alcoa action people were arrested for tresspass and “ endangering the lives of other people for the purposes of profit ”, these charges were later dropped. This means that none of the people being deported have been charged with or convicted of any criminal activity. In Iceland tresspass is only illegal if the landowners decide to press charges, which they have not, partly because they don´t want to draw any more attention to their ILLEGAL alluminum smelter. The deportation papers are a complete sham with the main basis being that apparantly the whole camp stated orally and in writing that they will continue protesting. The evidence they are using is the savingiceland.org website and an interview with one person on the Icelandic TV and radio. People have been illegally and aggresively snatched off the street as well as our sleeping space being illegally invaded in order for these papers to be issued. At present we are in communication with an Icelandic lawyer who is in the process of appealing the deportation papers and working with our case to sue the police.
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