[Cja] Fwd: [climate09-int] All mass arrests during COP15 last year declared illegal by Copenhagen City Court

[Chris Kitchen]

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Date: 16 December 2010 12:08
Subject: [climate09-int] All mass arrests during COP15 last year declared
illegal by Copenhagen City Court
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 *All mass arrests during COP15 last year declared illegal by Copenhagen
City Court*

The City Court of Copenhagen ruled today that the all the mass arrests
during the Copenhagen Climate Summit in
2009 were illigal and the police have to pay 9.000 DKK in damages to the
protestors, who have complaint so far. The verdict declares that all the
preventive arrests from the 11th to the 16th of december 2009 were illegal,
and so the actions of the police during the COP15 is not accepted by the
court.

Nearly 2000 people were preemptively arrested last year during the COP15
Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
250 of these people have complained and have sued the police for unlawful
arrest and detainment. The
case can set important precedence in Denmark, and has been going on since
spring of this year.

Knud Foldschack, the lawyer for some of the complainers that were arrested
on the 12th of December,
said:
“The events on the 12th of December 2009 have damaged the reputation of
Denmark abroad. A lot of
internationals came to Denmark to demonstrate with an expectation that
Denmark was a country where
you don’t have to fear the police. They were deeply disappointed.

Today the Copenhagen city court condemned the actions of the police. Knud
Foldschack says:
“This verdict is a clear signal to the Danish Parliament that they should
stop degrading legal rights in
Denmark, in order to comply with international conventions such as the
European Convention on Human
Rights.”

The verdict is a relief to those people who were preemptively arrested
during the Climate Summit. Nina Liv
Brøndum, who was arrested the 12th of December said:
“This is a really important outcome, 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.”

Questions about the appeal and verdict should be sent to:

Klimakollektivet
media at climatecollective.org
Tlf: (+45) 50 27 19 86

For more information and statements, please contact the office of the
laywers Foldschack and
Forchhammer at (+45) 33 44 55 66

If you were preemptively arrested during the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in
2009, but never
complained, please contact the Danish legal group RUSK. If they win the
court case, then there might be a
possibility to get compensation as well, even though you were not part of
the lawsuit. Email
kontakt at rusklaw.org (please specify name, address, nationality, and date,
place and time of the arrest)

Background:

Nearly 2000 people were preemptly arrested during the Climate Summit COP15
in December last year.
At the demonstration the 12th of December, which garthered more than 100.000
people, almost a 1000
people were arrested in the biggest mass arrest in Danish history. One of
many to criticize this has been
Amnesty International, which in an annual report criticized the excessive
abuse of power by the police.
Now 250 people from Denmark, Sweden, England, and France have complained
about the preemptive
arrests and the behavior of the police.

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