A couple of weeks ago, police attacked people at a charity punk concert
in Krakow. Footage filmed by Swiss journalists has been published in the
main papers and shown on TV. It shows police firing rubber bullets into a
relatively peaceful crowd, kicked and beating non-resisting people who
were being dragged and arrested by cops, etc. etc. 44 people were
arrested. 23 people are still in jail, including people who were beaten.
This is no doubt to hide evidence of bruises, etc. 9 are being charged
with felony assaults on police officers. (Throwing snowballs or other
means of self-defense.) This is probably one of the biggest mass arrests
and police brutality cases in Poland in a long time and we are asking
people to help by writing about this and writing fax of protest. More
information can be obtained from: ptite
mailto:ptite@go2.pl
