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Subject: [climate09-int] All mass arrests during COP15 last year declared illegal by Copenhagen City Court<br>To: <a href="mailto:cop15-coordination-cph@lists.riseup.net">cop15-coordination-cph@lists.riseup.net</a>, <a href="mailto:climate09-int@lists.riseup.net">climate09-int@lists.riseup.net</a><br>
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<font size="4"><b>All mass arrests during COP15 last year declared
illegal by Copenhagen City Court</b></font><br>
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The City Court of Copenhagen ruled today that the all the mass
arrests during the Copenhagen Climate Summit in<br>
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.<br>
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Nearly 2000 people were preemptively arrested last year during the
COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen.<br>
250 of these people have complained and have sued the police for
unlawful arrest and detainment. The<br>
case can set important precedence in Denmark, and has been going on
since spring of this year.<br>
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Knud Foldschack, the lawyer for some of the complainers that were
arrested on the 12th of December,<br>
said:<br>
“The events on the 12th of December 2009 have damaged the reputation
of Denmark abroad. A lot of<br>
internationals came to Denmark to demonstrate with an expectation
that Denmark was a country where<br>
you don’t have to fear the police. They were deeply disappointed.<br>
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Today the Copenhagen city court condemned the actions of the police.
Knud Foldschack says:<br>
“This verdict is a clear signal to the Danish Parliament that they
should stop degrading legal rights in<br>
Denmark, in order to comply with international conventions such as
the European Convention on Human<br>
Rights.”<br>
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The verdict is a relief to those people who were preemptively
arrested during the Climate Summit. Nina Liv<br>
Brøndum, who was arrested the 12th of December said:<br>
“This is a really important outcome, it means that people don’t have
to fear getting randomly arrested<br>
when they go to demonstrations, which many of us experienced during
the Climate Summit. It was a very<br>
rough experience, not only because we were treated cruelly but
because we were denied our most<br>
fundamental rights.”<br>
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Questions about the appeal and verdict should be sent to:<br>
<br>
Klimakollektivet<br>
<a href="mailto:media@climatecollective.org" target="_blank">media@climatecollective.org</a><br>
Tlf: (+45) 50 27 19 86<br>
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For more information and statements, please contact the office of
the laywers Foldschack and<br>
Forchhammer at (+45) 33 44 55 66<br>
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If you were preemptively arrested during the Climate Summit in
Copenhagen in 2009, but never<br>
complained, please contact the Danish legal group RUSK. If they win
the court case, then there might be a<br>
possibility to get compensation as well, even though you were not
part of the lawsuit. Email<br>
<a href="mailto:kontakt@rusklaw.org" target="_blank">kontakt@rusklaw.org</a>
(please specify name, address, nationality, and date, place and time
of the arrest)<br>
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Background:<br>
<br>
Nearly 2000 people were preemptly arrested during the Climate Summit
COP15 in December last year.<br>
At the demonstration the 12th of December, which garthered more than
100.000 people, almost a 1000<br>
people were arrested in the biggest mass arrest in Danish history.
One of many to criticize this has been<br>
Amnesty International, which in an annual report criticized the
excessive abuse of power by the police.<br>
Now 250 people from Denmark, Sweden, England, and France have
complained about the preemptive<br>
arrests and the behavior of the police.<br>
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