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From blicero <blicero@autistici.org>
Date Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:07:20 -0700
Subject [HaCkmEeTiNg] [alien8@freeuk.com: Re: [www-features] Crackdown on rights - police raid in germanyGermany, Switzerland, France, China, Canada] 

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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:14:47 +0100
From: Mr Alien Eight <alien8@freeuk.com>
Subject: Re: [www-features] Crackdown on rights - police raid in germanyGermany, Switzerland, France, China, Canada
To: www-features@lists.indymedia.org
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Reply-To: alien8@freeuk.com

Hi all!

Not so sure about some of the previous examples of a "crackdown on 
rights", especially where nazi sites are concerned. But yesterday a 
major act of repression against netactivism took place in Germany. 
Maybe that's a story for a related feature.... Here's a translation of 
the current top-feature on IMC Germany (also on http://www.indymedia.
org/front.php3?article_id=75749&group=webcast):

Police Raid against Online Demonstrators

In the morning hours of October 17th, police officers broke into the 
office of the initiative 'Libertad!' and confiscated all computers as 
well as several harddiscs, cdroms and documents. The background of this 
is the online demonstration on June 20th this year, to which 'Libertad!'
had mobilised, to protest against the deportation of refugees by the 
airline 'Deutsche Lufthansa AG'. 

In addition, the homes of those responsible for the websites of the 
group 'Libertad!' and sooderso.de , were searched. Here, police took 
away 6 computers and more than a hundred cdroms. According to the 
search order of the court [Amtsgericht] Frankfurt, 13,614 people had 
taken part in the action on the 20th of June. Because Lufthansa claims 
it has suffered economic damage by the more than 1.2 million page-hits 
during the action, police denounce the online-action as 'Noetigung', 
and the calls for protests declared by more than 150 participating 
human rights groups and refugee-councils as 'Anstiftung zu Straftaten' [
encitement to criminal damage]. "This is an attack on the freedom of 
demonstrations" said Anne Morell, who had officially announced the 
online demonstration on the 10th of June to the municipal 
administration office 'Ordnungsamt' Cologne. "It is a scandal that 13.
000 demonstrators are criminalized, whereas enterprises, making profits 
from deportations, can do their business in the internet", an activist 
said angrily. 

The police raids caused a lot of material damage. All doors were broken 
in the Third-World-House of Frankfurt, where in addition to Libertad, 
also the amnesty international group and many other initiatives have 
their offices. Inspite of hints by the Libertad-operator, the chair of 
the Third-World-House was not informed by the police. Instead the 
officers preferred to break the entrance-door. In contrary to the 
search order itself, the officers raided the offices of all the other 
initiatives in the house. The Libertad! Initiative, which has existed 
since 1993 and which is involved with support for political prisoners, 
see their work hindered heavily by the confiscation of the 10 computers 
and important documents. Meanwhile a software-toolkit for online-
demonstrations has been put to the web on the homepage of the online-
demonstrators. "We hope, that e-protest in the age of e-commerce will 
rise" said Anne Morell "and we call all democrats and opposers of 
deportation to protest against this police-state-mentality".


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