ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL DEMO Outside Thames Magistrates Court at 9am on Thursday
Arms Dealers On Trial | 21.04.2014 20:59 | Afghanistan | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World
ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL - DEMO OUTSIDE THAMES MAGISTRATES COURT at 9am on Thursday 24th April 2014
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This Thursday 24th April the two international arms companies we are privately prosecuting - Tianjin MyWay and Magforce - will face their first hearing, accused of promoting illegal torture weapons (stun batons, stun guns and fetters) at last year's DSEi arms fair.
Various illegal weapons have been discovered at every DSEi arms fair since 2005, including electro-shock weapons, weighted fetters, cluster munitions and anti-personnel landmines. The state (which heavily subsidises and jointly hosts the arms fair) has so far made no effective intervention. Please join us (at the same court we ourselves were due to stand trial in for disrupting last year's arms fair) as we take this rare opportunity to hold the arms companies accountable for their actions.
We are not merely opposed to ‘illegal’ weapons at the arms fair, we are against the arms fair full stop and everything it represents: the
corruption, the human misery, and the profiteering by a narrow elite at the expense of people and planet. We see this private prosecution as a further step towards meeting our objective of discrediting and then stopping the DSEI arms fair for good.
More information about our case is available on our website:
http://armsdealersontrial.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/dsei-arrestees-privately-prosecute-arms-companies/
For media enquiries please contact:
dseiprosecution@riseup.net
Follow us on twitter: @dseiprosecution
ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL
https://m.facebook.com/events/235837043288230?id=236788953193039&_rdr This Thursday 24th April the two international arms companies we are privately prosecuting - Tianjin MyWay and Magforce - will face their first hearing, accused of promoting illegal torture weapons (stun batons, stun guns and fetters) at last year's DSEi arms fair.
Various illegal weapons have been discovered at every DSEi arms fair since 2005, including electro-shock weapons, weighted fetters, cluster munitions and anti-personnel landmines. The state (which heavily subsidises and jointly hosts the arms fair) has so far made no effective intervention. Please join us (at the same court we ourselves were due to stand trial in for disrupting last year's arms fair) as we take this rare opportunity to hold the arms companies accountable for their actions.
We are not merely opposed to ‘illegal’ weapons at the arms fair, we are against the arms fair full stop and everything it represents: the
corruption, the human misery, and the profiteering by a narrow elite at the expense of people and planet. We see this private prosecution as a further step towards meeting our objective of discrediting and then stopping the DSEI arms fair for good.
More information about our case is available on our website:
http://armsdealersontrial.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/dsei-arrestees-privately-prosecute-arms-companies/ For media enquiries please contact:
dseiprosecution@riseup.net Follow us on twitter: @dseiprosecution
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e-mail:
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22.04.2014 13:19
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This is on a day when war-monger Blair was given a Bloomberg war PR platform!
23.04.2014 16:51
This ‘prosecution’ may turn out to be a symbolic step.
English courts are not known for backing democratic activities, far less for
encouraging or creating any ‘precedents’ for other activists to use.
Of course, as the lowest tier in the judicial bureaucracy, Thames Magistrates
Court cannot set a ‘precedent’ in the conventionally understood sense.
However, this is a step in the ethical direction...
Good luck!
Lincolnsinnsider