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Government Drugs Policy Unlawful

Government's partial and unequal administration of drugs law is today being challenged on appeal against conviction by American LSD chemist Casey Hardison.

Greece: Teo Eliopulos still not in a real hospital!

12-08-2009 21:38 | Repression | World

Teo Eliopulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner from the December Revolt still in pre-trial detention and is denied bail for his beliefs.

Guide for activists coming to Calais & a personal account

Stuff to plan for if you're coming to Calais, and a personal account from one person for Monday and Tuesday this week to give you an idea of what sort of work we're doing

August 30th 2009 - International Day of the Disappeared

12-08-2009 14:19 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The International Day of the Disappeared is a reminder that hundreds of thousands of families are still unaware of the fate of their loved ones missing in conflicts.

Numbers thin on ground in Calais, please come if you can

In the last couple of days numbers of people monitoring and intervening against police attacks on migrants have reduced. If you are thinking of coming, or want to find out more, please contact us now or have a look at the blog to see what you can do in Calais. There are many roles, doesn't have to involve face-to-face with cops! Hanging out with migrants often reaps rewards in building relationships, finding out what is really going on and is appreciated as simple, but effective, help can be provided - sorting out lighting for squats, improving nutrition for a pregnant woman, working in the same internet cafe so police back off, basic medic work...

Charges filed against 10 animal rights activists in Austria made public

12-08-2009 00:05 | Animal Liberation | Repression | World

The charges against the 10 animal rights activists who were held in pre-trial detention for over 3 months last year have finally arrived. As feared, they are being charged with "Forming a Criminal Organisation".

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Güler Zere, Turkish political prisoner (by Latuff)

11-08-2009 22:56 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

37 year old Güler Zere had cancer while she was kept in Elbistan Closed (E-Type) Prison in order to serve the execution of imprisonment sentence given by Malatya State Security Court.

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No Letup In Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama

11-08-2009 20:19 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

For eight years, the Bush administration relentlessly targeted Muslim, environmental, and animal rights activists as national security or terrorist threats. Shamefully, Obama continues the same practice.

Policing with "dignity" in Calais

As Immigration Minister Besson announced last night that he would provide free showers to migrants (four of them for 120-1800 people) as a measure to treat the scabies epidemic (showers do not treat scabies, which he knows being a former doctor) and demanding that the local authority support this work for "as long as it takes" (the same local authority that in July refused to allow humanitarian associations to set up showers), this photo show the reality of the "dignified" treatment of migrants in Calais that Besson has been infamously quoted as saying.

Greek prisoner support: press release on hunger striker Thodoris Iliopoulos

11-08-2009 09:03 | Repression | World

Translators note: Thodoris Iliopoulos is a prisoner of the Greek state simply for his beliefs. He has been in hunger strike for more than a month and even though his life is in immediate danger they still dont allow him to be taken care of in a hospital!

Honduras Coup: Template for a Hemispheric Assault on Democracy

11-08-2009 07:39 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

As Eva Golinger has convincingly documented1, the United States took part in conceiving, planning, and staging the coup. The U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, coordinates a team of high-ranking U.S. and Honduran military officials, and creatures from the old Bush administration, using the Soto Cano (Palmerola) U.S. air force base.

But when the army, machine guns blazing, assaulted President Zelaya’s house, kidnapped him, and dumped him in Costa Rica – still in pajamas – their actions forged unprecedented unity in Latin America and the Caribbean against the coup regime, and enraged hundreds of thousands within the country.

Iran at the crossroads: Revolution or Bargaining?

10-08-2009 19:41 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Repression | World

By calling the situation a “family fight” Mousavi who is the loser in the Khamenei-Ahmadinrjad game, is trying to at least bring it back to its pre elections status. What he doesn’t understand is that especially after June 20th Khamenei himself has become people’s main target and hence there is no turn back.

The Wall Street Journal Walls Itself In and Ridiculously Defends the Dictatorshi

10-08-2009 14:07 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"The coup d'état that rocked Honduras in late June and removed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from office, sending him into exile in Costa Rica, was preceded by a multi-million dollar build-up of foreign aid from a U.S. agency that includes on its board of directors the president of the International Republican Institute as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
That taxpayer-funded agency, called the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), oversees a multi-billion dollar foreign-aid fund called the Millennium Challenge Account. It was established in 2004 under the Bush administration as means of combating terrorism by funding development in poor nations under a strict neo-conservative free-trade model."

Intervention prevents police attack - Come help turn the tide in Calais

This felt like a real practical prevention of police attempts to hassle, arrest and quite clearly attack migrants in broad daylight in the centre of Calais in front of tourists and Calaisiens. This was made possible by our numbers increasing only slightly today, so come to Calais and continue the work to support migrants here. Lots of recent info elsewhere on www.calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com

Honduras President Manuel Zelaya (by Latuff)

10-08-2009 04:51 | Anti-militarism | History | Repression | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. To be published in Contraponto, the paper of the Sindicato dos Servidores das Justiças Federais no Estado do Rio de Janeiro SISEJUFE-RJ.

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Urgent Action - Support the Oxford 6

Saharawi students due to attend a course in the UK have been prevented from travelling, interrogated and violently assaulted by the Moroccan police. Please contact the Moroccan Ministry of Justice and the British Ambassador to Morocco to help ensure their safety.

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Honduras Coup Dictator Micheletti Calls Out the Geezer Patrol or "a country for

09-08-2009 18:58 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

"The pro-coup dailies in Honduras are abuzz with EXCELLENT NEWS FOR THE COUP REGIME!
Faced with the reality that millions of Hondurans have done the math and figured out that 14,000 National Police plus 9,000 members of the Armed Forces do not equal enough force to squash their unarmed movement to topple the coup d’etat, coup “president” Roberto Micheletti has called in the reserves.
The pro-coup daily La Tribuna gushes that the cavalry has come to save the coup regime from the forward march of the Honduran people:
More than 2,000 reservists, veterans of war and retired officials of the Armed Forces (FFAA, in its Spanish initials) reiterated their support for the President, Roberto Micheletti, at the celebration of the National Day of the Reservist."

We don't torture and we don't support it...honest, we don't...

A second parliamentary report in a week criticises the government over its involvement in torture and rendition, at the end of last month, a legal charity brought a court case against the government over its involvement in rendering foreign nationals through British territory, on Friday the High Court revealed further MI5 involvement in torture in Morocco and today Miliband and Johnson write in the Telegraph in support of it...

Human rights in Bangladesh: What is UK envoy Stephen Evans doing?

08-08-2009 21:44 | Migration | Repression | World

Mr Stephen Evans has been defending the role and record in Bangladesh of his predecessor as UK High Commissioner. Mr Evans has denied that his processor did anything wrong or that he interfered in the internal political and the democratic processes of Bangladesh. In his defence of his predecessor, Mr Stephen Evans said that his Govt is interested in helping the establishment of human rights in Bangladesh.

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Who are we?ما کی هستیم ؟ مونږ څوک یو ؟

08-08-2009 11:46 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

ما کی هستیم ؟ مونږ څوک یو ؟ Who are we?

World Repression Newswire Archive

Government Drugs Policy Unlawful

Greece: Teo Eliopulos still not in a real hospital!

Guide for activists coming to Calais & a personal account

August 30th 2009 - International Day of the Disappeared

Numbers thin on ground in Calais, please come if you can

Charges filed against 10 animal rights activists in Austria made public

Güler Zere, Turkish political prisoner (by Latuff)

No Letup In Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama

Policing with "dignity" in Calais

Greek prisoner support: press release on hunger striker Thodoris Iliopoulos

Honduras Coup: Template for a Hemispheric Assault on Democracy

Iran at the crossroads: Revolution or Bargaining?

The Wall Street Journal Walls Itself In and Ridiculously Defends the Dictatorshi

Intervention prevents police attack - Come help turn the tide in Calais

Honduras President Manuel Zelaya (by Latuff)

Urgent Action - Support the Oxford 6

Honduras Coup Dictator Micheletti Calls Out the Geezer Patrol or "a country for

We don't torture and we don't support it...honest, we don't...

Human rights in Bangladesh: What is UK envoy Stephen Evans doing?

Who are we?ما کی هستیم ؟ مونږ څوک یو ؟

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