Category Archives: Nieuws

Arrests, detentions and interrogations – World Hockey Championship 2014 in Minsk

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Траф-en-212x300From: ABC-Belarus

Several hours left before the official start of the World Hockey Championship 2014 in Belarus. Event that was planned in 2009 during another political thaw between the West and Lukashenko was constantly criticized by human rights and political organizations for support of Lukashenko’s political regime. Many groups called national hockey teams to boycott the championship, however International Federation of Ice Hockey decided once again that sport is standing apart from politics and retained the right for hosting championship in Minsk. Continue reading →

Info en discussie (privatisering van) gevangenissen Nederland

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steenEnglish Callout

Het is tijd om informatie en ideëen te delen over de ontwikkelingen van het moment in het Nederlandse gevangeniswezen en de noodzaak van de afschaffings-strijd tegen gevangenissen. Het laatste tijd is er veel nieuws in de media over gevangenissen. Nieuws als het redicule idee dat gevangenen zelf zullen moeten gaan betalen voor hun opsluiting, maar ook de blijvende roep om zwaardere straffen in het algemeen. Continue reading →

Prison: abolish or destroy? (Deranged)

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FremantlePrison1988RiotDamageFrom: 325

To provoke discussion about the issues contained within, and sharpen the attack against the existent, we reproduce the full text of this newly retrieved article from Deranged #0.

Deranged #0 was published a few years ago by random anarchists in London. In UK this year there is a ‘Prison Abolition’ campaign and conference[1], with prior workshops happening in Bristol soon[2]. The post-industrial cybernetic society of the present and near-future, has as it’s aim the abolition of prisons in the name of rehabilitation and social reconfiguration. Continue reading →

Stone by stone: Information and discussion on (the privatization of) Prisons in the Netherlands

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tumblr_mfzd6byQ6P1r4vpxio4_500When: 27 May

Where: De Klinker, Van Broeckhuysenstraat 46, Nijmegen

Time: 21:00

 

It’s time to share information and ideas about the recent developments in the Dutch prison system en the necessity of abolitionist struggle. Lately news on prisons has been in the media a lot. News like the ridicule idea that inmates are going to have to pay to be incarcerated, but also a call for heavier punishments in general. The prison system is undergoing a process of far reaching privatization. The state intends to make the prisons financially self-sufficient. By outsourcing the building and exploitation to private companies even more parties and people will make profit from locking up people. Continue reading →

In actie rond hoger beroep Joke Kaviaar – solidariteit tegen repressie, solidariteit voor migratievrijheid

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revolution__pen_hand2Bron: steungroep 13 september

Over drie weken, namelijk donderdag 15 mei, dient het hoger beroep in de rechtszaak tegen Joke Kaviaar. Zij is op 22 januari 2013 tot vier maanden cel veroordeeld wegens het publiceren van vier teksten die het Openbaar Ministerie beschouwt als opruiend. In de teksten nam zij fel stelling tegen de vervolging, opsluiting en deportatie van vluchtelingen en migranten zonder verblijfspapieren, tegen het onderdrukkende migratiebeleid van de Nederlandse staat.

Met de veroordeling treft de staat allen die op willen staan tegen onrecht, zich krachtig uit willen spreken en tot verzet willen oproepen. De staat valt zo de strijd voor vrijheid van migratie zelf aan. Dit mag niet onweersproken blijven. Continue reading →

Toronto G20 prisoners update (Kanada)

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2010624-g20-riots-1a-300x198From: 325

Here are some updates about Kevin, Rick, and Joel, three Americans serving time in Canada for Toronto G20 convictions. Please note their current addresses (they have moved since the last update), writing letters is a great way to make sure incarcerated comrades feel connected.

Joel Bitar

On February 13th Joel plead guilty to 12 counts of mischief over $5000 (originally facing 26 counts) and was sentenced to 20 months. He is keeping up a blog while he is inside: http://lockedupyetliberated.noblogs.org/ You can read his statement to the court here. His current address is: Continue reading →

Rome: Presentation of a new Anarchist Black Cross newsletter at the Bencivenga squat (Italy)

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stillnotlovingprisonwebIntroductory note by RadioAzione, via Actforfree:

I receive and transmit the editorial of the Anarchist Black Cross newsletter, which will be presented on 25th April at the Bencivenga Squat in Rome. Besides spreading letters from prisoners and claims of attacks, counter-information should propose analysis, be it from the internet or on paper. I’m sorry I don’t agree with some passages of this editorial, when the comrades probably talk without having a direct experience of counter-information via web. Most importantly, there exist no virtual worlds but comrades who meet in person and organize initiatives all over the world. But I’m happy about this new Anarchist Black Cross bulletin, especially as there’s always the need of analysis on paper: Continue reading →

Two belated letters from Mario ‘Tripa’ Lopez, who has gone underground (Mexico)

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fuerzatripaFirst Public Letter

You are waiting for the revolution! Very well! My own began along time ago! When you are ready — God, what an endless wait! — it won’t nauseate me to go along the road awhile with you! But when you stop, I will continue on my mad and triumphant march toward the great and sublime conquest of Nothing! Every society you build will have its fringes, and on the fringes of every society, heroic and restless vagabonds will wander, with their wild and virgin thoughts, only able to live by preparing ever new and terrible outbreaks of rebellion!
I shall be among them! Continue reading →

New address for Ebba Olausson, animal liberation prisoner of war (Sweden)

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ebba325 receives and transmits this info from the solidarity group:

Ebba Olausson was moved to this address in Örebro jail. Revolutionary greetings, bombs and fires to the system of oppressors, free the anarchist fighters now.

Ebba Olausson
Box 3
701 40 ÖREBRO
SWEDEN

Previous info 1, 2, & 3.

Spanningen in Griekse Gevangenissen

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X-Greek-PrisonsDatum: 29-3-2014
Bron: LibCom.org
Vertaling: Tommy Ryan

Ten midden van verslechterende omstandigheden en harde maatregelen is de woede deze week overgekookt waarbij een gevangenisbewaarder en een gevangene werden vermoord in de gevagenis in Malandrino, Griekenland.

De spanningen lopen hoog op in het Griekse gevangenissysteem na de dood van een gevangenisbewaker en de gevangene die hem vermoordde.
Eerder deze week werd Llia Kareli, vermoordde een 42-jarige gevangene gevangenisbewaarder Yiorgos Tsiranis in de gevangenis in Malandrino. Kareli, die een lange gevangenisstraf uit zat, had een verzoek ingediend zijn stervende moeder te bezoeken. Dit werd hem ontzegd. Met een scherp voorwerp heeft hij Tsiranis neergestoken die ter plaatse overleed. Kareli werd overgeplaatst naar de Nigrita gevangenis en werd daar in een isoleercel gehouden ter observatie. In deze cel is het later dood teruggevonden. Er is een onderzoek onderweg naar de doodsoorzaak maar het rapport van de lijkschouwer laat zien dat Kareli hevige verwondingen had die overeen lijken te komen met marteling van voor zijn dood. Continue reading →