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[MJ]

Some news about more heavy handedness around the world. Oh, big 
brother. George is turning in his bed.
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> On September 4th, the investigating attorney of the
> Belgrade District Court ruled that the six young people
> arrested on September 3rd 2009 under the charges of "causing
> general public danger", were to be held in custody for
> thirty days, whereas, in his request for investigation, the
> state attorney changed the qualification to "criminal act of
> international terrorism".
> 
> They are charged with having written a graffiti on the
> facade of the Greek embassy building in Francuska Street in
> Belgrade, and then throwing two Molotov cocktalis on the
> building, on August 25th about 3a.m. On this occasion, a
> window was cracked, the flame caused minor damage to the
> facade without spreading to the interior of the building,
> and the small fire was soon extinguished (with a bottle of
> water). No one was injured in this 'assault', since the
> embassy building was empty at the time, and all embassy
> services started working regularly the following morning.
> 
> After two months of investigation, on November 3rd, charges
> of committing a criminal act of international terrorism were
> raised against Tadej Kurepa, Sanja Dojkic, Nikola Mitrovic,
> Ratibor Trivunac, Ivan Savic and Ivan Vulovic. The accused
> were denied the right to be granted bail, under the excuse
> that their offence could possibly be repeated.
> 
> The curiousity of these circumstances resides in the
> unusual moves made by the police and the prosecution,
> whereby the arrested have been charged with committing a
> criminal act of international terrorism. According to the
> Criminal Code of Serbia, this act is treated in the same
> rank with the crime of genocide, crime against humanity, war
> crimes against civillians, organizing and incitement to
> genocide and war crimes, leading aggressive warfare, and the
> like.
> 
> Let us recollect that the only person prosecuted for taking
> part in the burning of the American embassy in Belgrade on
> February 21st 2008 was spared such a harsh qualification,
> and was charged with no more than "serious offenses against
> the enforcement of general safety", even though the building
> of a foreign embassy was seriously damaged in the fire, and
> one person, who was in the company of the defendant, died in
> the fire.
> 
> At the present moment, in which civil rights and freedoms
> in Serbia are being largely narrowed by the changes
> introduced to the Criminal Code and the Public Information
> Law, criminal prosecution of the six arrested clearly
> indicates the intention of certain political structures to
> increase the level of repression and use misfeasance in
> their effort to gradually stifle any political criticism of
> their actions.
> 
> More than two months after the formal indictment, a month
> after the complaint filed by the defense had been dismissed,
> the six young people are still in detention, awaiting trial.
> Their trial has not yet been scheduled, even though all
> legal deadlines have been broken.
> 
> We hereby declare our solidarity with the arrested and
> demand that the absurd indictment against them be
> withdrawn!
> 
> Freedom to the arrested anarchists!
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