After leaving Russian FSB detention, left activist is returned to sea by Sapporo authorities

Sapporo-Otaru. 10.03.08 – 13:00 GMT: The German left activist Dr. Martin
Kraemer has been refused landing in the port of Sapporo-Otaru. He has
been condemned by Japanese authorities to remain stay put on the Panama
vessel BM-2, which had brought him from Sakhalin on Friday, 7th of
March. “Just released from special confinement by the Russian political
police FSB, it’s now the Japanese repressive forces who try to top them.

“In Russia, I got kicked and received an official death threat in
custody, but this is worse,” says Martin: “Today’s blow against Japanese
dignity set in before I could even open my mouth in this splendid
country.” The surprising decision by Japanese immigration officers was
announced today after receiving central instructions at 16:00 o’clock
local time (8:00 GMT). At that time, Dr. Kraemer had already spent 66
hours waiting in the port of Otaru to get landing permission.

[Media G8way | Gipfelsoli Infogroup]

Press Release

Monday, 29th October 2007

• Those charged face compensation claims for Genoa’s “image loss”
• Solidarity demonstrations in Genoa and Rostock

Six years after the G8 summit protests in Genoa a number of court cases
against demonstrators and members of the police force are still taking
place. The cases against police officers and Carabinieri are being
stalled in order to take advantage of the statute of limitation that
will soon expire. In the cases against the 25 activists the state
prosecuters Canepa and Canciani are displaying full force. There have
never been such high sentence demands for street clashes.

The witnesses have all been heard. In its plea the state prosecution is
demanding jail sentences between 6 and 16 years, a total of 225 years.
With these convictions they intend to write history: “Let’s call Genoa
what it was: looting and destruction”. Last week the Government in Rome
ordered compensation claims against the 25 charged. These claims total
2.6 million Euros for the property damage that occurred, for example at
the Marassi prison. Included in this is a large sum intended as
compensation for the image loss the city of Genoa is said to have suffered.

“Genoa was a revolt. The 25 charged stand for all of the 300 000 people
in the streets of Genoa. In all the diversity, there was one common
goal: to delegitimise the G8 and the Red Zone”, Hanne Jobst of the
Gipfelsoli Infogroup stated.

Coalition for the Immediate End to the § 129a Proceedings

• Lawyers demand an end to the §129a proceedings

Yesterday the German Federal Court announced its decision in the case of
Berlin-based Andrej H. The Court has decided that at no point there was
any immediate suspicion that would have necessitated his detainment. The
arrest warrant against the activist and researcher was unlawful from the
beginning and has thus been overturned.

“We welcome this decision. Particularly because with this decision the
Federal Court confirms that the conclusions of the Federal Prosecution
were purely speculative and exaggerated,” Christina Clemm, Andrej’s
legal representative said. “The various violations of my client’s basic
rights that have occurred in the last months are therefore unlawful. The
next step is to close the case.”

Berlin, 22nd October 2007

Press Release

Coalition launches international competition
No terror before four — or: what exactly is an after-work terrorist?

The Federal Prosecution is after it. The red-green coalition is trying to
redefine it. The Federal Court has to evaluate it and our friends are to be
charged because of it.

The phantom called “terrorism”
The German criminal legislation paragraph 129a enables the prosecution of
terrorist activity or membership in a terrorist organisation, but even the
highest judges of Germany are not quite sure what terrorism actually is. The
Federal Minister for Justice doesn’t think that 9/11 was terrorism, but
everyone’s scared of it. German criminal legislation, the UN and also the EU
have no clear definition of the term “terrorism”. We’re now asking: What
exactly is terrorism? Who is a terrorist? And what’s a terrorist act?

Press Release

Berlin, 15th October

• Appeal lodged against the continued custodial remand of Axel H., Oliver R. and
  Florian L.
• Federal Court to take no decisions before 18th October

The German Federal Court of Justice has yet again postponed its deadline for
deciding on the Federal Prosecution?s appeal against the release of Andrej H.
on bail. “We cannot expect a decision before October 18th”, commented
Cristina Clemm who is legally representing Andrej H.

The Court has announced it will make a categorical decision with respect to the
current case against the “mg” (militant group). In light of this, the
lawyers of three further accused, Axel H., Oliver R. and Florian L., have now
lodged an appeal against the continued custodial remand of their clients.

[Infotour Working Group | Gipfelsoli Infogroup]

Press Release
Saturday 6th October 2007

• Infotour in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong

This week, activists from the “Infotour Working Group” embarked on their trip to
Asia. A number of meetings and events are planned to foster closer contact
between the Anti-G8 protest movements in Asia and Europe. At the beginning of
July 2008 the G8 summit will take place in Hokkaido. In Japan, a coalition of
counter-globalisation, anarchist and ecological groups are preparing protests
and actions. Also in Europe there are calls for resistance to the summit.

The “Infotour Working Group” of the radical left “Dissent network” organised
hundreds of information events in Europe in preparation for the 2007 G8 summit.
These mobilisations contributed to the broad protest movement in Heiligendamm.

Coalition for the Immediate End to the §129a Proceedings

Press Release
Berlin, 30th August 2007

Sociologist Remains Free. Federal Prosecution postpones decision to revoke temporary release

Yesterday afternoon the Third Criminal Division of the Federal Court of
Justice declared that the decision over the appeal against Andrej H.‘s
temporary release from custody has been postponed until October.
According to the judge there are outstanding legal questions as to
whether the anti-terrorist legislation, the “§129a”, can even be applied
to this case at all. The lawyers acting on behalf of Florian L., Oliver
R. and Axel H. believe that this discussion over the premises of the
charges will also have an effect on their clients’ situation.

Coalition for the immediate end to the §129a proceedings

Press Release 24 August

The persons charged in the §129a (anti-terrorism) proceedings were severely
beaten during their arrest and are being treated like Guantanamo prisoners.
Special detention conditions at Berlin’s Moabit prison involve solitary
confinement.

On 31/07/2007 Oliver R., Axel H. and Florian L. were arrested after
allegedly attempting to set fire to three German Army vehicles. Only now
it has transpired that they experienced severe assaults during the
arrest. The accused are still being detained in extreme conditions.

Media G8way | Gipfelsoli Infogroup

Press Release for Immediate Release
Thursday, August 9th 2007

• Mapping the history of the G8 resistance

Anti G8 protesters from Germany and abroad have released an “Action Map” of the protests and actions against the G8 that took place in Germany at the beginning of June this year.

Different groups have been adding to the map that collates the massive and diverse protests, direct actions, blockades and other events that took place during the week of action against the G8 and the politics they represent. The map contains different icons that indicate where and what kind of action occured. The individual icons are linked to texts, films or pictures about the actions.

JULY 28, 2007 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media contact in Siberia: +79 246212465

RUSSIA – Police and state officials have repeatedly denied that
organised Neo-Nazi structures are behind the attack last week on a
enviromental protest camp in Siberia leaving several heavily injured
victims and one dead.

In the morning of the 21st of July approximately 15-20 young men in
camouflage clothing with short-cut hair and white arm bands attacked the
protest camp and beat up the 20 campers with iron bars and other
weapons, as the organisers of the camp published later that day. Ilya
Borodaenko, aged 21, from Nachodka died from craniocerebral trauma in a
hospital after suffering a head-fracture during the attack. Of the nine
other campers who were seriously injured, at least one had both legs
broken and all together five were put in the hospital with serious
conditions. Two still remain.

According to victims of the assault, police have repeatedly denied the
existence of any organized neo-fascist groups in the area or a political
background of the attack, despite obvious signs to the contrary. Victims
account of hearing the assailants “spitefully swearing” about the
Russian anti-fascist movement while they beat the campers. According to
eye-witnesses, authorities have attempted to cover up the far-right
ideology behind the attack. In their written statement victims decry the
”pressing requests of the representatives of the police and the Office
of Public Prosecutor to participants of the camp not to make a scandal
and to avoid any communication with journalists.” This follows a trend
in recent years where police and the government mislabel such attacks
and neo-nazi murders as merely “hooligan attacks” in an effort to
downplay right-wing extremist political violence.