Prozess um Entschädigung von staatlichem rechtswidrigen Handeln.

Erklärung eines Betroffenen zu dem geführten Prozess gegen die Stadt Hamburg, der für eine Entschädigung gestritten hatte:
Am 9. Mai 2007, im Vorfeld des G8 Gipfels in Heiligendamm, durchsuchte die Bundesanwaltschaft, gedeckt durch den §129a (Bildung einer Terroristischen Vereinigung) über 40 Wohnungen und Orte. Der Verfassungsschutz hatte schon seit Längerem (mehrere Jahre) Betroffene überwacht und beim Generalbundesanwalt die "Ermittlungen" empfohlen. Durch die Überwachung kamen dann dadurch, dass einzelne zueinander Kontakt hatten, immer mehr Beschuldigte dazu. Von den Razzien, an denen über 900 Polizeibeamt_innen beteiligt waren, waren somit insgesamt 18 Personen betroffen. Uns wurde vorgeworfen:
"... mit Brandanschlägen und anderen gewalttätigen Aktionen den bevorstehenden Weltwirtschaftsgipfel (G8) im Frühsommer 2007 in Heiligendamm erheblich zu stören oder zu verhindern. Diese Straftaten sind dazu bestimmt, die in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bestehende Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsordnung zu erschüttern und können insbesondere die internationale Position der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als verlässlicher Partner im Verbund der acht wichtigsten Wirtschaftsnationen erheblich schädigen."
Der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) erklärte später, dass die gesamten Maßnahmen der Bundesanwaltschaft rechtswidrig waren.

Source: http://de.indymedia.org/2012/02/324080.shtml weiter...

Michael McKiernan

John Morden’s G20 investigation is taking its toll on the Toronto Police Services Board’s finances.

The total bill for the former associate chief justice’s independent civilian review into matters relating to the G20 Summit hit $784,000 by the end of 2011 and looks set to cross the $1-million threshold before its targeted completion date of March 2012, according to the board’s agenda for its Jan. 20 meeting.

The review was only supposed to take 12 weeks when it was announced in July 2010, but by the time Morden, now counsel at Heenan Blaikie LLP, was hired in September 2010, the deadline had disappeared. The board didn’t set a specific budget but has been paying Morden’s $480-per-hour bills out of its special fund.

Source: http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/678/G20-legal-probe-draining-Toronto-police-fund.html weiter...

By JAN RAVENSBERGEN

The Crown has dropped a criminal charge against a Montreal man arrested after he videotaped undercover cops during a peaceful Montreal demonstration protesting against the mass arrests in 2010 of G20 opponents.

Scott Weinstein, a nurse, had for the past 17 months been facing a charge of assault on police with a weapon – his bicycle.

His trial had been scheduled to begin Wednesday morning.

Ending a court session that took about half a minute, Judge Yves Paradis of Quebec Court declared the matter closed.

Weinstein, who has maintained from the start that he did nothing illegal, told reporters minutes later that he wishes to file a police ethics complaint alleging evidence-tampering by police.

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Charge%20against%20Montreal%20protester%20dropped/6085003/story.html weiter...

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has released its After Action Report for the 2010 G8-G20 Summits.

The OPP worked in partnership as part of the Integrated Security Unit (ISU) to fulfill the mandate of the ISU which was to ensure that G8-G20 Summits were held in a safe manner for all participants, residents and visitors.

The OPP’s primary role within the ISU was for perimeter security relating to the G8 as the police service of jurisdiction for Huntsville and area. The OPP conducted a full and comprehensive de-briefing and evaluation of this event as it does all major events. The After Action Report provides a baseline reference for future events including best practices and recommendations.

The report has been consolidated from the original internal report and can be viewed at OPP G8-G20 Summits Consolidated After Action Report.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/559696

To all those who were at Genoa or have an interest in the event….

The Berlin Film Festival has shortlisted and nominated two Genoa G8 films for the critically acclaimed Panorama Dokumente award. Domenico Procacci’s DIAZ: Don’t Clean Up This Blood will premiere on February 12th. and Franco Fracassi’s ‘The Summit’ (G-Gate) will premiere on February 14th. Procacci’s DIAZ was conceived as a movie film project during the summer of 2009 with the permission of several of the Diaz victims, including myself. Procacci’s production company, Fandango spent 2009 to early 2011 preparing a script around six victims and six police characters who were at Diaz. Source: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/two-g8-films-shortlisted-and-nominated-for-the-berlin-film-festival.287822/ weiter...

By Tom Schueneman

Danish court rules mass arrests by Danish police during COP15 climate talks were illegalTens of thousands protestors braved the bone-chilling cold and took to the streets of Copenhagen last year to protest the intractable stalemate and posturing that characterized the COP15 climate talks. Of those thousands, nearly 2000 were preemptively arrested and detained by Danish police.

A Danish court ruled this week that all mass, preemptive arrests made between December 11th and 16th 2009 were illegal, ordering the police to pay between 5,000 9,000 DKK (about $887 to $1600) to each of the 250 protestors who have thus far issued complaints on their treatment by police.

“This is a really important outcome,” said Nina Liv Brøndum, who was arrested on December 12th. “It means that people don’t have to fear getting randomly arrested when they go to demonstrations, which many of us experienced during the Climate Summit. It was a very rough experience, not only because we were treated cruelly but because we were denied our most fundamental rights.”

Source: http://planetsave.com/2010/12/17/copenhagen-mass-arrests-during-cop15-ruled-illegal-by-danish-court/ weiter...

A report on security at the G8 and G20 summits in 2010 says there was some confusion when Ontario Provincial Police were unexpectedly redeployed to help police in Toronto.

The provincial police report says the force's primary role was perimeter security at the G8 in the Huntsville, Ont., area.

When violence and vandalism erupted in Toronto on June 26, 2010, provincial police were called in to bolster the G20 interdiction zone in Toronto.

The report says there was confusion because it was not clear if the provincial police officers were supporting Toronto police or the RCMP.

Source: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120125/opp-report-g20-outlines-problems-120125/20120125/?hub=TorontoNewHome weiter...

Kopenhagener Polizei verliert 2. Instanz im Gerichtsprozess bezüglich der Rechtfertigung von Massengewahrsamnahmen während des COP 15 in Kopenhagen im Dezember 2009.

Heute morgen, am 25.01.12, verkündete das Østre Landsret das vorläufige Urteil in der 2. Etappe des COP15 Prozesses. Demnach verstiessen die Massengewahrsamnahmen beim Klimagipfel am 12.12.2009 gegen das dänische Grund- und Polizeigesetz und stellten zusätzlich einen Verstoss gegen Art. 3,5, 10 und 11 der Europäischen Menschenrechtskoneventionen dar.
Damit verurteilte das Landesgericht die Kopenhagener Polizei zur Zahlung von insgesamt 2,3 Mio Dkr Entschädigung. Die einzelnen Summen liegen bei ca 2500-13.000 Dkr pro betroffener Person.
Insgesamt hatten 178 Menschen der 905 Demonstran_innen vom 12.12.2009 gegen das Vorgehen der Kopenhagener Polizei geklagt.

Source: http://de.indymedia.org/2012/01/323628.shtml weiter...

Kevin Misener, Charlene Close

Toronto police chief Bill Blair has said he won’t rush to charge five of his officers linked to the arrest of a G20 protester despite a recommendation from the province’s police complaints watchdog.

A report from the director of the Independent Police Review recommends the five be charged with unnecessary use of force and discreditable conduct, related to the beating of protester Adam Nobody.

The report does say it was a legitimate arrest because Nobody threatened the officers. However, it takes issue with his treatment after the arrest. He suffered a broken nose and cheekbone. There’s video of him being punched and kicked.

Chief Blair said a couple of steps have to take place before any charges are laid.

Source: http://www.680news.com/news/national/article/321719--police-complaints-watchdog-recommends-charging-cops-in-g20-beating weiter...

Metropolitan police win appeal against high court ruling criticising violent tactics at the G20 protest in 2009

Owen Bowcott

Police tactics of kettling protesters, used extensively during the G20 protests in London three years ago, have been upheld as lawful.

The appeal court overturned a previous ruling by the high court on the controversial technique deployed to contain demonstrators during the climate camp sit-in.

Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, sitting in the court of appeal with Lord Justice Hughes and Lord Justice Sullivan, declared that the lower court’s finding was flawed and allowed the appeal by the Metropolitan police commissioner.

The ruling was immediately criticised by protesters and their lawyers, who said they would challenge the legal setback in the supreme court.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/kettling-protesters-lawful-appeal-court?newsfeed=true weiter...

Five Toronto police officers should be charged with using unnecessary force against protester Adam Nobody during the G20 summit 19 months ago, an independent police review says.

The 174-page report by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) is based on interviews with a dozen police witnesses, the five officers involved, five civilian witnesses and Nobody himself.

The allegation that Constables Michael Adams, Babak Andalib-Goortani, Geoffrey Fardell, David Donaldson and Oliver Simpson used unnecessary force “is substantiated and is of a serious nature,” the report says.

Nobody suffered a broken right cheekbone and broken nose in the takedown on June 26, 2010.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1118596--g20-officers-should-be-charged-in-nobody-arrest-police-watchdog-says?bn=1 weiter...

HUNTSVILLE – Robert Paschmann and Sarah Nüdling wanted to make a documentary about the G8 Summit coming to Huntsville.

But they did not want to recreate the generic political tale often told by other summit films, said the independent filmmakers from Hamburg, Germany.
“We hope to give a perspective on the event that hasn’t been shown before,” said Paschmann. “If the G8 was the giant stage where the political things happen, we wanted to look backstage. I think this is a very interesting perspective.”
When he first visited Huntsville, said Paschmann, the town impressed him because it seemed perfectly peaceful.
“I though it would make a very interesting story if such a huge event – with all the police, security, protesters and all the things we have seen at G8 summits before – came to Huntsville.”

Source: http://www.cottagecountrynow.ca/news/article/1281174--german-doc-delves-into-huntsville-g8 weiter...

By Moriah Balingit

A man who was convicted of causing more than $15,000 worth of damage during G20 protests in 2009 will restart his five years’ probation after pleading guilty to summary charges of obstructing roadways and disorderly conduct stemming from another protest last year.

Common Pleas Judge Edward Borkowski today sentenced David Japenga, of Garfield, to time served — he remained in jail from late August to early December — and to restart the probation he received on his conviction of charges stemming from the G20 protests. The penalty is also for violating his previous term of probation by getting arrested.

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12017/1204082-100.stm weiter...

Vancouver police have recommended charges against 20 more people suspected of taking part in the June 15 riot, raising the total number to 100.

Police announced the latest charge recommendations during a news conference Tuesday.

In B.C., police must forward charge recommendations to the Crown for approval. The Crown has approved and laid charges against 30 people accused of participating in the riot so far. One person has entered a guilty plea.

The Vancouver police has been much criticized for the pace of its investigation. The force did not forward its first major batch of case files to the Crown until Oct. 31 – four and a half months after the Stanley Cup riot that caused millions of dollars in damage.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/vancouver-police-recommend-charges-for-20-more-people-in-riots/article2305620/?from=sec2965 weiter...

Sean Salvati — the paralegal who was arrested prior to the G20 summit and allegedly strip searched, assaulted and held naked in a jail cell for nearly an hour — was “the author of his own misfortune,” according to a statement of defence by Toronto police.

The statement was issued in response to a lawsuit by Salvati, who accuses Toronto police of falsely imprisoning him and violating his Charter rights in June 2010 when they arrested him for public intoxication, a charge he contends was bogus.

Salvati, 33, claims he was also subjected to “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment” while in police custody. But according to Toronto police, Salvati’s arrest and treatment was justified because he was “inebriated” and acted “abusive, obstructive and aggressive in his interactions with officers.”

Source: http://www.thestar.com/article/1116080--man-left-naked-in-cell-before-g20-the-author-of-his-own-misfortune-police weiter...

A woman identified by the crown as a key player in organizing the G20 protests will be sentenced in a Toronto court on Friday morning.

Amanda Hiscocks, 37, pleaded guilty in November to counselling to obstruct police and counselling to commit mischief.

Ms. Hiscocks was among 17 people who were charged with conspiracy after undercover police officers infiltrated activist groups in Southern Ontario as they planned protests for the G8 and G20 summits.

She was arrested early in the morning on June 26, 2010, hours before a Toronto protest turned into a riot, with black-clad protesters smashing windows and burning police cars.

In a plea deal negotiated last fall, 11 of the 17 activists had all charges against them dropped, and the rest pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Four of those convicted have already been sentenced and a fifth, Alex Hundert, will appear in court on Friday morning but expects to delay his sentencing until June.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/facing-sentencing-g20-activist-says-shed-do-it-again-in-a-second/article2301172/ weiter...

Tagung zu neuen digitalen Schnüffelwerkzeugen am 4. Februar 2012 in Berlin

11.00 – 13.00 Uhr
Podium 1: Das Handy als polizeiliches Werkzeug zur Strafverfolgung und „Crowd Control“

• Funkzellenauswertung zur Strafverfolgung in Dresden (Peer Stolle, Rechtsanwalt)
• Aufspüren von DemonstrantInnen in Echtzeit im Iran (Erich Moechel, Internetreporter)
• Die Verwaltung des digitalen Tsunami: Die Rolle der EU-Sicherheitsforschung (Eric Töpfer, Statewatch/ CILIP)
  Moderation: N.N.

14.00 – 16.00 Uhr
Podium 2: Mathematik gegen Dissens – Computergestützte Repression

• Deep packet inspection und Vorratsdaten (Ralf Bendrath, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter von Jan Philipp Albrecht, MdEP/ Grüne)
• Ermittlungssoftware, Data Mining, voraussagende Analyse (Matthias Monroy, Journalist, Gipfelsoli)
• Polizeiliche Ermittlungen in Sozialen Netzwerken (Rena Tangens, Foebud)
  Moderation: Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung Münster

16.30 – 19.00 Uhr
Was tun: Digitaler Selbstschutz, Rechtsschutz, Online-Petition? Gegenstrategien in den Wogen des „digitalen Tsunami“

• Alternative Provider und digitaler Selbstschutz (NADIR, angefragt)
• Die Kampagne gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Ein Modell für zukünftige Initiativen? (Katharina Nocun, Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung)
• Wer macht eigentlich Netzpolitik? (Sandra Mamitzsch, Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.)
• Mit Recht und Gesetz gegen ausufernde digitale Kriminaltechnik? (Thilo Weichert, Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein)
• Aus dem Arsenal der polizeilichen Beschaffungsabteilung: Was da ist, wird auch benutzt (Josephine Fischer, Initiativgruppe „Sachsens Demokratie“, Dresden)
  Moderation: N.N.

Die Tagung beginnt um 11.00 Uhr im Südblock, Admiralstraße 1, 10999 Berlin (U8, Kottbusser Tor), die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.
Auf Twitter: #RAV42

Veranstalter: Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e.V., Zeitschrift Bürgerrechte & Polizei/ CILIP, Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie e.V., data:recollective, Kritische Jurist_innen der FU

Kundgebung zu Prozessbeginn: Di, 17.1.2012 um 8:30 Uhr
Freitag, 6. Januar 2012

Im Juni 2008 wurde der Anmelder einer bundesweiten Demonstration im Zusammenhang mit dem G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm vom Amtsgericht Karlsruhe zu 60 Tagessätzen verurteilt. Er soll nicht ausreichend für die Durchsetzung einzelner Auflagen gesorgt haben.

Das Urteil des Amtsrichters Neuberth treibt die Deformierung des Versammlungsrechts auf die Spitze. Damit wäre jede Demoanmeldung ein unkalkulierbares Risiko.

Wir wehren uns gegen die zunehmende Praxis der Behörden, Demonstrationen bereits im Vorfeld mit schikanösen Auflagen zu belegen und durch das Auftreten von Polizeihundertschaften zu kriminalisieren.

Source: http://www.kampagne19mai.de/joomla/index.php weiter...

A state appeals court says the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board doesn’t have a right to review unredacted police records involving arrests and police operational plans during the Group of 20 economic summit in September 2009.

The Citizens Police Review Board says it needs the documents to thoroughly and fairly investigate citizen complaints of police misconduct. An Allegheny County judge at first ordered the city to produce the records, but later agreed with city could redact some information under the state’s Criminal History Record Information Act. The law prevents city police from sharing some information with non-law enforcement agencies.

Source: http://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/state/appeals-court-pittsburgh-can-redact-g-documents/article_2db45e94-a1fd-5c4e-bafd-98c9a3177986.html weiter...

GUELPH — Guelph activist Amanda Hiscocks expects to be before the courts again in connection with her advocacy efforts — even after she’s sentenced next month for her role in organizing protests at the G20 summit in Toronto.

That’s one of the revelations Hiscocks shared recently with Mercury reporter Rob O’Flanagan in a question-and-answer exchange, conducted via email. O’Flanagan pursued the Q & A session with Hiscocks and fellow Guelph activist Monica Peters after their participation in a plea-bargain agreement last month. It resolved the prosecution of a Crown case against them and more than a dozen other individuals described as the Toronto G20 ringleaders.

In that deal, Hiscocks, 37, pleaded guilty to counselling others to commit property damage and to counselling to obstruct a peace officer.

Source: http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/645383--guelph-g20-activist-says-these-aren-t-my-first-criminal-convictions-and-they-won-t-be-my-last weiter...