----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 1:49 AM Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] [Activist_List] (FWD) : People being tied up and beaten in Police cells in Prague ... NOW!!! STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:21:37 From: "Activist Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Activist Mailing List - http://activist.cjb.net From: alt.activism At least 500 protestors against the World Bank / IMF summit in Prague this week are being beaten, tear gassed, tied up for hours on end and sexually harassed in prison cells in the Czech Republic, following two days of severe police brutality on the streets of the city. People are still being arrested. This information has been obtained from within the prison as one arrestee had a Mobile with them for a time. Those arrested are a combination of Peaceful protestors, Rioters and Medics (who were picked out first). All deserve support and protection from police brutality. They need your help NOW!!! Call these numbers and write to these emails to demand their release, complain about the brutality and generally hassle the authorities: Czech Ministry of Justice: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Czech President, Vacslav Havel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Czech Embassy: 0207 243 1115 British Embassy in Czech Republic: 0042 0257 530278 fax: 0042 0257 530296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] UK Foreign Office: 0207 270 3000 0207 238 4586 Czech Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0207 291 9920 fax 0207 4368300 Despite the arrests, the resistance to the summit was highly successful, causing the talks to shut down one day early. For news of what really happened this week in Prague and for updates visit the website: www.prague.indymedia.org Brief summary follows !World Bank/IMF cancel annual meeting & pull out of Prague! The World Bank has now cancelled its meetings for the third and final day of its annual meeting (September 28), and is pulling out of Prague. This is a direct result of the successful resistance to the World Bank/IMF shown on September 26. September 26th background: 11,000 police deployed in Prague (1/4 of total Czech police force) 15-20,000 activists, operating in clusters of affinity groups, keeping in touch through communications network, barricade delegates inside Prague Congress Centre over 8 hours, in face of... Police using water cannons, tear gas, CS gas, rubber bullets, flash-bangs (stun grenades) in large quantities, baton charges against peaceful protestors, as well as pitch battles with tooled up Spanish/Italian affinity clusters People carrying medical supplies targeted and snatched by police Access to injured people (including severe head injuries) frustrated by police Police dressed as masked up "protestors" starting fights within the crowds Similar actions from fascists, supported by police Czech people assist protestors - old man handing out cobblestones, water being poured from appartments onto riot police. About 60 people in police custody as of 2200 hrs on September 26. Main police focus to keep control of Congress Centre, not make mass arrests Evening social events at Opera cancelled. Banquet for 6000 delegates gets attention from 1000-strong black block Hardly any police on streets of Prague old town from about 1800-2200 hrs, when extensive damage caused to banks and fast food outlets (yes, including lots of McDonalds), mainly around avenues that were focus for 1989 Velvet Revolution - lots of Czechs involved in this. September 26 involved largest and most brutal police presence on streets of Prague since weeks leading up to Velvet Revolution September 27 Protestors gather in Old Town Square for "Party", in defiance of police clampdown, and to keep their spirits up! 2031 hrs, confirmed reports of extreme police brutality in jails - people being tied together for hours, gassed, beaten, men and women separated and women sexually assaulted (not known to what extent). Some of this information from a mobile phone inside a jail, until cut off. Legal observers denied access to jails Czech Ministry of Interior breaks off relations with OPH, the Czech based legal monitoring group. Evening, 1000 demonstrators outside one jail where people being held. Police surround crowd and pick out medics, then remove all press. Protestors told to leave one by one giving passport details - attempts to break police lines leads to police using gas and baton charges on crowd. More arrests - extent of injuries not known Some people being released, police still picking up others demanding them to account for their whereabouts on September 27 September 28 - TODAY 1206 hrs Indymedia in Letna Square surrounded by police 1219 hrs Demonstrators gathering on Charles Bridge in Old Town - highly visible - to protest at police brutality and demand release of prisoners 1224 hrs Demonstrators outside Ministry of Interior. Reports of extreme police brutality 10-20 people arrested so far. http://prague.indymedia.org/ JOIN THE ACTIVIST MAILING LIST To subscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================================== * The Activist * http://get.to/activist * http://activist.cjb.net This is not about the world that we inherited from our forefathers, It is about the world we have borrowed from our children !! ===================================================================== . --------- End Forwarded Message --------- xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' http://www.angelfire.com/ut/Angel1 Main Line News http://www.mainlinenews.net xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
