State offensive against the libertarian movement!
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01/08/2011 [15:19]
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Ratibor Trivunac
In the days immediately following the NATO conference in Belgrade and the arrests of our members who participated in the Anti-NATO campaign, the staged proceedings against members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), which had ended more than a year ago with acquittal, have magically been revived.
STATE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT!
- An analysis of the current wave of state repression of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative ?
Since the official forming of our organisation in late 2002, not a single year has passed without our activists being arrested or legally prosecuted. It is important to note that all of them have been acquitted. Currently, there are legal proceedings against seven members of our Belgrade local group for various offenses. This kind of repression against our organisation is a clear sign of weakness of an inhuman system on the wane.
This, politically motivated decision of the Court of Appeals is accompanied with legally and in every other way illiterate explanation which is not placing forward any argument to support that verdict, and is only once again reaffirming political character of the whole case against the Six.
It is interesting that uniformed police presence at this protest was minimal, and that the activists of the police-controlled fascist organization disbanded after their gathering and prevented any outbreaks.
On the other hand, at the peaceful protest of the Anti-NATO campaign, which was kettled by police as soon as approximately one hundred people gathered, the demonstrators were insulted and shoved down the surrounding slopes. Unidentified plainclothes policemen brutally arrested eight participants, of which three are members of ASI.
. "Evidence" for these allegations are found in the false testimonies of police officers of the Department of Public Order of the Belgrade City Police, Dejan Vasi? and Sa?a Todorovi?, the latter who testified against Trivunac while visibly intoxicated by alcohol.
The Secretariat of Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative,
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