The four comrades, including UK anarchist Simon Chapman, have been found not guilty for all (except one minor charge) in Greek court of the charges going back to the EU Summit protests and riots in Thessaloniki in 2003. All four of the defendants are free. All the initial charges were dropped apart from “distinguished defiance of [...]
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/cairo/ The people want the regime to fall: Reports from the Egyptian uprising, in English …and here is its first text update: Sunday night After 5 days of unprecedented popular dissent in Egypt, protestors are still on the main square in downtown Cairo demanding the resignation of President Mubarak and his entire government, and say [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Wednesday 26 January 2011, 9am, Thessaloniki Courthouse. With the prosecution having been completed and the defence witnesses rather hastily examined, it was now the job of the prosecutor to outline the reasoning of the laws being used to charge the defendants. The charges were: causing explosions with the intent to endanger human life, possession of [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tuesday 25 January 2011, 9am, Thessaloniki Courthouse. (Day 5: for clarity, the information below has been put in a simpler order to help readers make sense of it: in reality, the day was disjointed with first one witness for one defendant, then for another defendant, then for another, then a break, then back to the [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Monday 24 January 2011, 9am, Thessaloniki Courthouse. Officer #15 arrested Michalis and alleged that he was carrying a bag containing 3 molotovs, 4 masks and a powerful slingshot. He stated that he had seen Michalis throw many molotovs over a period of 30 minutes. He couldn’t remember if Michalis was wearing gloves, or if he [...]
Emergency Solidarity Demo for the Thessaloniki 4 // 11am Saturday Jan 29th* // Greek Tourist Office, Central London The saga of the trial currently taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece continues with a judgement on the four now due on Monday January 31st. It was always clear that the trial and the repression which preceded was [...]
09.00 GMT+2 In the middle of what seemed like a very long night, the hunger strikers who were in the Law School in Athens and the people who were with them in solidarity moved to another central Athens building (privately owned) where they will continue their strike. A fresh solidarity demonstration has been called for [...]
Thursday, January 27, 2011
As the police operation against the migrant hunger strikers in the Athens Law school seems imminent, impromptu solidarity gatherings have been called at the following Greek cities (list to be updated). All gatherings at 7pm GMT+2 Athens (Exarcheia Square) Chania, Crete (Agora) Thessaloniki (Labour Union) Kozani (main Square) Xanthi (Polytechnic) Volos (Migrant Haunt, 9pm) Mytilene [...]
