World Repression Newswire Archive

Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres - Uzbek Embassy, London, 12 noon, Saturd

*Support Uzbekistan's democratic opposition.

*Demand justice for the hundreds murdered by Karimov in Andizhan this week.

*Call for an end to Western support for this brutal regime.

[PRISONACT] FOR THE MILLIONS WHO CARE! A Call to Arms

19-05-2005 02:42 | Repression | London | World

Too many citizens have been cruelly touched by the flawed system of justice in our country - because 'justice' apparently no longer means truth and equality and basic human rights for all.

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Interview with Independent journalist Dahr Jamail

This is a 2,000 word interview with 4 photos of an interview I had with independent American journalist Dahr Jamail in May 2005.

Al-Qeada's a spent force clain Pakistan police

18-05-2005 15:29 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Article in London's metro paper May 17th

“Reporters without borders” serve US government intrests

17-05-2005 23:00 | Indymedia | Repression | World

“Yes, this is correct, we receive money from NED and this isn't a problem for us”, admitted the boss of “Reporters without borders” Robert Ménard. But the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is not any organisation. It has been founded 1983 under the admistration of Reagan to enforce a politic which specifically aimed to destabilise Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua.

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Gay Saudis tortured, flogged and executed

Defend gay Muslims persecuted by fundamentalism
17 May is “International Day Against Homophobia”
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most homophobic countries. Gay people are routinely arrested, jailed, tortured, flogged and sometimes executed

Torture okay: propaganda paper

17-05-2005 04:12 | Health | Repression | London | World

The article - Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in which Torture is Morally Justifiable - is soon to be published in the University of San Francisco Law Review?

9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?

16-05-2005 01:09 | Repression | London | World

"I suggested earlier that seeing the true connections between 9/11 and the global domination project helps us understand how fully this project reflects “fanaticism based on a deeply perverted value system.” This is a value system that is diametrically opposed to the value systems on which all the great religious and moral traditions of the world have been based."

This is an account of my five days in the West Bank/Israel earlier this month.

This is a 2,200 word article with 10 attached photos of my time in the West Bank and Israel in May 2005.

Protest against Saudi torture and executions

Join our protest on the International Day Against Homophobia.

Tuesday 17 May 2005
12 noon to 2pm
Saudi Arabian Embassy
30 Charles Street, London W1J 5DZ (nearest tube Green Park)

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kick off time in uzbekistan

13-05-2005 00:38 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

it seems to be kick off time in uzbekistan, at least according to these two reports. the second of which is very interesting....
months of peaceful protest followed by an armed uprising???

iraq quagmire or Genocide

The so-called progressive Neo-liberal media in the US are more closed minded in support of invasion than the the rightwingers who occupied Iraq. That is why not only we don't have anti-war movements but actually there is no credible voice if dissents.Here is one example of a neo-liberal hypocricy. They are using the argument about the Quagmire in Iraq as a sokescreen to cover the genocide in iraq.

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Technopolis - gathering in Leeds 9 - 12th June

09-05-2005 12:23 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | World

Three days of learning, discussion and games to explore new technologies of control and our resistance to them.

15 year old anarchist killed by police on mayday, Bogotá,Columbia

08-05-2005 21:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

News is circulating that yet another anarchist has died due to state repression on Mayday. Within hours of the Dublin anarchist picnic Nicolás David Neira Alvares was clubbed to the ground by up to eight police on the Bogota Mayday march and beaten on the head until he passed out. Police then prevented his comrades getting to him so it was some time before they could get him to hospital where he died earlier today.

lock glueing against general election

08-05-2005 13:32 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

on the eve of the general election, locks in leeds were glued up with quick metal to help sabotage the democratic system.

Young anarchist wounded by the police in Colombia

06-05-2005 21:46 | Repression | World

a young anarchist was wounded by police during may day demonstrations in bogota, colombia.

Association for the Prevention of Torture

05-05-2005 03:59 | Health | Repression | London | World

Persons deprived of their liberty are most at risk as they are cut off from the outside world and solely dependent upon the authorities for their most basic needs and rights. The OPCAT offers a novel approach as no other international treaty provides for concrete steps to prevent these violations from occurring within places of detention worldwide.

UK Electoral Disenfranchisement

04-05-2005 08:24 | Repression | World

The following letter to the Guardian on the subjct of electoral fraud and disenfranchisement was not published by the Guardian:

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MAYDAY APPEAL

03-05-2005 22:56 | Anti-racism | Repression | London | World

A person was arrested on Mayday at the Tesco action and is looking for people who witnessed his arrest, and are wlling to write statements of what they saw,photographic and video evidence is welcome and much needed...