UK Repression Newswire Archive
The Rule of (Their) Law: Repression of Political Protest Beyond SOCPA
22-05-2008 13:46
This is a summary of other legislations being now used to repress free assembly and political protest in the UK, apart from the one contained under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Sections 128-138 and 145-149)FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture
22-05-2008 11:13
FBI agents who witnessed the torture of detainees at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba created what they called a “war crimes” file documenting what they had seen, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).Sussex Students Union supports Smash EDO activists denied legal aid
22-05-2008 07:45
University of Sussex Student Union has backed the five Sussex students that have been denied legal aid by Brighton magistrates court. The five, part of a group of seven on trial, were denied legal aid on the basis that as students they are "intelligent enough to represent themselves".Dawn raids against anti-fur activists in Austria
21-05-2008 22:36
Starting at 6:00am today houses, flats and storerooms belonging to animal rights activists were raided and the inhabitants arrested all across Austria. In several cases activists were woken by armed police and brutally handcuffed. They could only look on helplessly as their homes and possesions were ransacked by police.Latest repression against the Escada Campaign
21-05-2008 22:04
PRESS RELEASE: TUESDAY 20TH MAY 20008Press Release - re: University Arrests
21-05-2008 13:42
PRESS RELEASENottingham University Students and Staff Express Serious Concerns about Recent Use of the Terrorism Act on Campus and Demand Academic Freedom
Raids And Arrests In Austria
21-05-2008 13:36
...since the early morning hours, houses, flats and storage rooms of austrian animal rights activists have been raided and some of them where arrested. The police forced some people with weapons and handcuffed others while searching the building and rooms.ID roadshow in Nottingham
21-05-2008 12:02
The idea of an ID roadshow is, believe it or not, not a jest.Clive Stafford Smith: US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons
21-05-2008 09:12
“There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn’t get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can’t get any sort of legal rights,” reports British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.mp3:
http://media.switchpod.com/users/democracynow/ftp/dn2008-0519-1.mp3
Burma Cyclone Global Day of Actiion London Report
20-05-2008 20:05
What a c**t, eh?
20-05-2008 18:49
First published at:
http://plattitude.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-ct-eh.html
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Saved from landfill or stolen? What do you think?
20-05-2008 17:29
Support Animal Liberation Prisoner Sean Kirtley (New site and MySpace)
19-05-2008 23:28
Our friend and fellow Sequani activist Sean Kirtley was remanded and awaits sentencing in relation to the 18 week Sequani trial and Operation Tornado.Call for actions! Don't let Israel celebrate 60 years of occupation
19-05-2008 22:34
SUNDAY 29th JUNE -LONDON & MANCHESTERCalling all individuals, clowns, groups, journalists, first aiders, legal support, cameras & filmmakers: come along and show your disgust at 'celebrating' a nation built on war, terror and ethnic cleansing. Let's see the thousands who supported the people of Tibet also show their solidarity with the people of Palestine. End all occupations!
BURMA: What are we waiting for?
19-05-2008 18:10
Burma : Repurcussions of Nargis and update on Tsunami
19-05-2008 11:09
of corruption which has prevented aid have appalling repurcussions
for the people of Burma/Myanmar.
Issues unlooked at generally in msm,are those relating to gender and
Lawlessness. The women at
http://www.isiswomen.org are covering reportage on gender violence in disaster aftermath this month.
Union Stages MGM Casino Protest at Foxwoods
18-05-2008 21:04
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Antispe report from Veggie Pride march
18-05-2008 19:23
anonymous communique (rough translation):Abdul Alfeckhal Belongs to Middlesbrough
18-05-2008 10:51
