Wednesday, September 30, 2009
(See this article for some background info on the case)
A few minutes ago, the investigating judge ordered the remaining two youths that appeared to him today in pre-trial detention. Yesterday, one youth was ordered in pre-trial detention and another was released on bail until trial. In total 3 out of the 4 arrested are now [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
(See this article for some background info on the case)
Two out of four arrested youths appeared yesterday (Tuesday 29/9) at the investigating judge. The 20-year old girl was released on bail; bail orders include a ban from leaving the country (she studies in London!) plus the obligation to appear at a local police station twice [...]
Sunday, September 27, 2009
On September 24, in an operation of unprecedented scale in recent years, the anti-terrorist unit of the greek police raided at least two houses in the suburbs of Athens. In total four young persons of up to 21 years old were arrested and are interrogated by the anti-terrorist unit. The police claim that some findings [...]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The thugs of the so-called “Delta Force” were unleashed into the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki a few months after December’s revolt, in face of the continuing social unrest in the streets of the two cities. Formed nearly-overnight, the new force was provided with often misaligning gear, making for quite a clownish spectacle -small motorcycles [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tonight, around 1,000 people (according to Athens IMC) responded to the call-out by the open assembly of the self-organised park in Exarcheia and took to the streets of the neighbourhood against police violence and state repression (callout). The demonstration was called after the police raid of the neighbourhood on September 4, during which armed police [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
It seems that we have not seen the best of it yet. After the disastrous fires of 2007 that burned to ashes more than 268.834 hectares of forest area and cost the life of 63 people – let alone livestock and wild animals – coupled with the recent arsons of 2009 that deprived Athens and [...]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
UPDATE, 9.05pm – all detainees, including the under-aged, have now returned to their cells. The head of the local prefecture who showed up on the spot promised the under-aged detainees that they shall all be released by Friday. This remains to be seen…
The “detention centre” (read: prison) in Pagani, Mytilene, is where most of the [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
The self-organised park of Exarcheia has called for a demonstration against state repression and police violence, this Thursday 24.10 at 6 pm (the meeting time was transfered an hour later than initially planned). The demonstration comes as a response to the recent raid of the park and the nearby streets by members of the armed [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
May 1, 2002. Members of the Stalinist Communist Party (KKE) have just discovered an armed undercover cop to have infiltrated their Mayday demonstration in Athens. They demand to know his name (Christos Giannakoulis, pic 1) and hand him over, together with his gun (pic 2), to the head of the police present at the demonstration [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Call for solidarity with 6 comrades from Serbia.
On 04.09.2009, following the decision of the investigating judge of the District Court in Belgrade, the groups of six anarchists who were arrested 3rd of September 2009 were sentenced to detention measures up to thirty days. year. The charge states that the suspects , on 25th of August, [...]