UK Repression Newswire Archive
New crime bill flouts presumption of innocence
20-01-2007 21:13
This week the Home Office published its proposed Serious Crime bill. Under the guise of tackling “serious and organized crime,” the Blair government is to further erode the presumption of innocence, so that people who have not been charged—let alone convicted—of a criminal offence can be subject to draconian restrictions on their freedom of movement.Farnborough Airport Public Inquiry
20-01-2007 17:32
A public Inquiry is to be held on Tuesday to consider a demand by TAG Aviation to double the number of weekend and bank holiday flights at Farnborough Airport.Labour's plans to create a Thought Crime
20-01-2007 01:59
The Government has plans to make it illegal to possess images which it considers "abhorrent" even though they admit that there is no proof of them causing harm.18/01/07: Video , photos and report on Kalyx - “Making everyday a better day.”
20-01-2007 00:36
In Turkey, the penalty for "Insulting Turkishness" is death
19-01-2007 21:56
Prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist Dink is killed by assassins bullet after Turkish State witch-hunt. Dink was outspoken about the first World War genocide of 300,000 Armenians at the hands of the Turkish State in 1915-18.SECOND HUNGER STRIKE IS UNDERWAY ON TEXAS DEATH ROW
19-01-2007 17:28
THE NON VIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST THE INHUMANE DEATH PENALTY PERSISTSBloody report from Ballinaboy/ Rossport, Ireland
19-01-2007 15:13
OutRage!: Nigeria's svage anti-gay laws- PROTESTS REQ.
19-01-2007 09:58
Gay rights group OutRage! issues protest call over Nigeria's new and savage anti-gay laws...Entry Denied:
19-01-2007 04:09
Democrat Agenda Omissions
19-01-2007 00:52
It gets even worse, as it always does, as not a word is heard from Democrats that the Bush administration through lies and deceit committed what the Nuremberg Tribunal called the "supreme international crime" of illegal aggression against a country posing no threat to us or its neighbors. The new Congress also said nothing about what former UN head of Iraqi humanitarian relief called an act of genocide against the Iraqi people when he resigned from his post in anger and disgust in 1998.11-01-07: Photos from Catholic Workers Guantanamo protest, US Embassy
18-01-2007 21:55
Video: Guantanamo Vogue and Disco Dance outside Lockheed-Martin
18-01-2007 21:47
(Video) Nablus: IOF-operation in the old city
18-01-2007 19:54
Today, 18th of January 2006, Nablus experienced another military operation by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).Translated Corriere della Sera newspaper article on suspended Genoa Diaz case
18-01-2007 19:31
The translation is a bit rough, due to time constraints.Genoa Diaz trial suspended over one of its most controversial sides. Well-known police officers are on trial for false evidence and slander.
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Genova G8 Cops get off as the evidence disapears into thin air
18-01-2007 11:44
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Germany G8 - 12km Security Fence Construction Begins!
18-01-2007 10:22
The fence consisting of 4,600 dark green steel segments weighing 75 kg (165.3 lb) will be 2.5 metres (8 ft 2.4 in) high and 2.45 metres wide. The segments are attached to cement pillars weighing 900 kg each and topped with razor wire - to prevent anyone from tunneling beneath the fence, 50-cm long steel grating is also being sunk into the ground.
Australia: More race hate from the political and mass media establishment
18-01-2007 07:22
Oz Minister’s Identity Crisis
18-01-2007 04:41
The ‘Australian’ Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, familiar to the local population as an American apologist, stooge and lackey, appears to have lost every vestige of a national identity as he strained today to defend the illegal detention by the criminal Bush regime of the Australian citizen, David Hicks. Mr. Downer’s muddled and professionally unqualified statements regarding the mental health of David Hicks, after five years detention in Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, only serve to highlight his personal dereliction of duty and his traitorous attitude to a foreign power.Top Pentagon Official Calls for Boycott of Law Firms
18-01-2007 03:42
G8 police raids in Munich
17-01-2007 21:21
in munich different places were raided by the police. Named as a reason was the call to blockade the airport Rostock-Laage published in several broshures and in the call for protests against the socalled security-conference [a privatelly organized sub-summit where politicians, weapons industrials and nato-generals harmonize their strategies,].