[Cja] Judicial ban on a protest camp near Cologne

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Press release: Judicial ban on a protest camp near Cologne shows 
systematic attack on the freedom of Assembly +++ Verwaltungsgericht Köln 
prohibits massive tents at protest camp against Braunkohle+++ constraint 
of Versammlungsfreiheit+++ despite harassment begins the climate camp on 
Friday on Wednesday 21 August the Verwaltungsgericht Köln ruled that no 
tents and no kitchen must be built on the beginning on the Friday air 
camp in Manheim (Rheinland), where several hundred participants are 
expected. The requirements of Kerpen district police were confirming 
that make impossible the implementation of the climate camp in regulated 
railways. For years, cuts in the freedom of Assembly by authorities, 
attempts to restrict camps as a particularly effective form of protest 
so massively that they in fact not take place are piling up in Germany. 
Most recently this happened in Germany when the refugee protests at the 
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Blockupy protests in Frankfurt and the 
resistance against Castor transport.

"The de facto ban of the climate camp has far-reaching consequences for 
the fundamental right to freedom of Assembly, which goes beyond the 
region and the conflict in the brown coal." stresses Melanie Schubert 
performed the preparatory group of the camps. "This harassment serve to 
prevent legitimate and successful protest to anywhere in Germany and to 
criminalize. If this approach makes school, political camps in the 
future would be nearly impossible.We hope now to wide solidarity, 
including from liberal citizens who are concerned about the future of 
the freedom of Assembly."

In spite of the harassment by authorities and justice will begin 
tomorrow, on 23 August, the camp planned for months. There are currently 
three bicycle caravans on the way according to Manheim, who will arrive 
on Saturday. The climate camp is aimed against the extremely 
environmentally harmful mining of lignite in the Rhenish Brown coal 
district by the RWE group. For weeks, the organizers are in negotiations 
with the city of Kerpen and the district police. The climate camp should 
as held in the years before on an orchards in Manheim. For the care and 
accommodation of the activists call the Klimacamper_innen and local 
initiatives to accommodate the population on Camper_innen.

On the 23.08.2013 a press conference in Allerweltshaus, seeds road 77, 
in Cologne will take place at 11: 00 at the start of the climate camp.

For more information, like contact our press team: presse at ausgeco2hlt.de 
<mailto:presse at ausgeco2hlt.de> 0157 3724 3327 (Translated by Bing 
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