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Goteborg info over processen, aktieoproep etc
ox - 08.05.2002 14:36

Goteborg - info met betrekking tot de processen tegen de arrestanten, aankondiging nieuw boek, update met betrekking tot de ondertekening van de oproep voor eerlijke processen etc.


zie voor oproep voor rechtvaardiger processen  http://www.indymedia.nl/2002/04/3448.shtml
(nl-versie)

Hieronder een deel van de uitgebreide mail welke door Erik Wijk is rondgestuurd. De grootste delen van de zweedse tekst zijn erafgehaald. De engelse is wat lang om zo te vertalen, excuses.

inhoud:
1: Overzicht hoge raad zaken (engels)
2: aktieoproep 5e juni / 15e juni (engels)
3: Nieuw boek over goteborgrellen en processen (zweeds)

1. The Call made a major achievement when the Swedish Supreme Court on April 29th finally decided on a case after the Gothenburg riots. The verdict is a strong criticism against the lower courts:
a) The sentence for rioting was in this case reduced from 20 months in prison to 4 months imprison.
b) The claim that this particular riot (which is the most common one in the courts so far) was directed against the top summit is rejected. On the contrary, the Supreme court stresses the responsibility of the police
for this riot.
c) The Supreme Court rejects the much used ruling that the riots in Gothenburg are parts of one whole organized Super-riot.
However, the Supreme court claimed that its slow reaction (32 people already being sentenced to prison when this ruling came) is a result of neglect from the defendants - that they haven´t appealed against the
length of sentences. But the documents show that no less than 10 defendants have appealad against that prior to the case that was finally tried in the Supreme Court.
In my view this implicates that it was the pressure from public opinion that forced the Supreme Court to change its mind and finally pick up a case from Gothenburg. Your support to this call is part of that pressure!
And only continuing call for justice wil make it possible to reduce the sentences also for the earlier and coming defendants.
What remains is also that the question of responsibility of the defendants is raised on the highest level and, of course, that the
responsibility of the police (and politicians) are tried in court. There
are innocent people in prison right now. And there are too many responsible policemen that are not being tried at all.

2.  ACTION-ALARM
Call of social movements - Solidarity with the Gothenburg 41!
Join the international action day June 5th
- against the swedish model of repressing summit protesters and criminalising them.
For the first time ever at a summit of international governmental representatives the police shot demonstrators in Gothenburg 2001 with live ammunition. They almost killed one person and wounded two, one of them a bystander.
Sweden has set a record during its EU-presidency in spring 2001 in oppressing summit protests by preventive police strategies, politicians and media accusing protesters of being terrorists and the worst ever sentences for summit protests.

238 times longer prison terms in total

The result is that the sentences after the summit protests in Sweden in total are 238 times harder than in Nice, Prague or Seattle!
In Seattle people were sentenced to a few days of imprisonment -maximum 9 days,
in Prague the sentences were suspended and noone was imprisioned, some were deported though, and in Nice two persons were given one month imprisonment each. In Sweden so far 41 persons have been sentenced to 12 months average imprisonment being charged with violent rioting. At least 8 more people
are waiting to be put on trial. The maximum length of these sentences in Sweden is two and a half year -which is 30 times more than the maximum sentence of any of the previous summits.
In total there are 476 months of imprisonment in Sweden since Gbg 2001.  

Record of arresting people at summits or taking them into custody:
Sweden also set a record in terms of preventive actions against demonstrators at summits in the Western world,  both considered as a part of the total amount of demonstrators at the summit or the total number of people who have been taken into custody by the police.
Already at the meeting of the EU finance ministers in Malmö, Sweden, on the 21 of April 2001, the Swedish police used a preventive strategy taking 266 demonstrators into custody out of a legal, broadly organised demonstration of 2000 people. This is 13,3 % of the demonstrators which is a higher percentage than at any other broad demonstration at a summit in the Western world since protest demonstrations at summits started in 1968.

In Gothenburg the Swedish police continued their preventive strategy by surrounding 500 people inside a school with hundreds of containers at the counterconference before any actions in the streets had taken place at
all. The police finally stormed the school in search of weapons -but they did not find any.
The following day another preventive police action took place in Gothenburg against a demonstration where people started rioting and throwing stones at the police and policemen throw stones back at the demonstrators. At the end of the day the police attacked a street party
which resulted in confrontations and policemen shooting people in the streets.

929 people were arrested or taken into custody by the police during the Gothenburg EU-Summit, the majority in connection with the police storming the schoool.
This amount of people being denied their freedom by the police at a summit has not been seen at any previous meeting - except in Prague 2000 where there were similar figures.

This new Swedish model of shooting live bullets at summit demonstrators and storming schools where demonstrators have their lodgings, meetings and information facilities was after Gothenburg 2001 applied to at the
G-8 Summit in Genua with even more brutal methods. The outcome of the court rulings from the repressive actions of the Italian government has not yet been finished but it is to be remembered that the Swedish
government set the standards that the others now can follow.

5th of June
The 5th of June is worldwide commemorating of the UN Conference on environment hosted by the then Swedish prime minister Olof Palme 1972. This was the first time ever that popular movements held counter conferences, demonstrations and a dialogue with the official delegations at a summit.
Year 2001 the Swedish government instead introduced making the summits more undemocratic by unprecedented repression and criminalising.
We call upon using this date, the week before the anniversary of the EU Summit 15-16th of June, in order to make the Swedish and international public aware of these unacceptable repressive actions made by of the Swedish government!
We hope you will spread these protests as soon as possible so it can be known all over the world what people think of criminalising summit protests. In Gothenburg a demonstration and a meeting will be held on the 15th of June and we now ask for international solidarity:

Organization Friends of the Earth Sweden
Trade union Central Organization of Swedens Workers (SAC)
Recently established Democracy Net
call for peaceful protests at all Swedish embassies, consulates or similar places in support of the imprisoned persons and in order to stop the criminalisation and repression of summit protests or of the
globalisation critical movement!

Hand over a petition, make a sit-in or a demonstration in solidarity with
the Swedish and the international popular movements against the Swedish
government!

Sweden 28 of April 2002
Tord Björk, Miljöförbundet Jordens Vänner - Friends of the Earth Sweden,
 tord.bjork@mjv.se
Hannele Peltonen, SAC Syndikalisterna -Central Organization of Swedens
Workers,  sekretariatet@sac.se
Gerd Pettersson, Demokratinätet - Democracy Net,  d.p@gerd.pp.se

Enclosed
About the trials after Gbg 2001 The maximum sentence after the Gothenburg EU-Summit has been two and a half years of imprisonment.

People have been sentenced to maximum punishment in trials without individual proof, sentenced for just sending mobile text messages telling others to show solidarity with the 500 people locked up inside a school
behind containers by the police.

A trade unionist from Norway has been sentenced to longer terms of imprisonment in spite of the fact that there has been no proof at all that he has hit any policeman, while other persons stating no political
interests at all have got away with shorter terms of imprisonment though they actually have hit policemen with stones.

During the trials it has been proved that the police force has manipulated video materials and several films showing police violence.

Both the film taken by a bystander wounded by the police and films taken by people who later were imprisioned have been lost by the police, so that these persons cannot use their own material to defend themselves.

In total three times more demonstrators than policemen had to go to hospital after the confrontations in Gbg 2001.

Up to this date no one policeman has been charged with anything concerning the riots.

No investigations at all have been made of police conduct, not even of the policemen who fired the shots and wounded three people -one of them almost killed.


3. En voor de diehards nog een stukje in het Zweeds over het nieuwe boek van Erik Wijk:


NYA BOKEN KLAR!


Att jag varit dålig på sistone att uppdatera hemsidan och namnlistan beror på att jag varit omåttligt upptagen av att färdigställa den nya boken. Men nu kommer den!

Göteborgskravallerna och processerna
av Erik Wijk Originalpocket
762 sidor
55:- inklusive porto vid beställning från Manifest www.manifest.se

16 maj levereras den till förlaget och de stora distributörerna. Redan nu kan den beskådas och beställas på hemsidan (www.manifest.se) och i så fall landar den i brevlådan runt 22 maj. 762 sidor hårdvara om
göteborgshändelserna, häktet och processerna. För 55 kronor inklusive porto. Den kommer även att finnas/kunna beställas i bokhandel/pocketshop/varuhus/kiosker.

Sprid gärna kännedom om boken - den är viktig, om jag får säga det själv - och eftersom den blir så billig måste den sälja väldigt mycket för att överhuvudtaget gå runt för förlaget...


Website: http://www.manifest.se/upprop/
 

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Solidaritaet mit den 41 von Goeteborg  
soli - 10.05.2002 11:03

Schweden, GBG 2001, Solidaritaet mit den 41 von Goeteborg

Aufruf der sozialen Bewegungen - Solidaritaet mit den 41 von Goeteborg!


Schliesst euch dem internationalen Aktionstag am 5. Juni an

- gegen das schwedische Modell der Repressionen gegen die Gipfel-
demonstrantInnen und deren Kriminalisierung

Zum ersten Mal ueberhaupt bei einem Gipfel internationaler
Regierungsrepraesentanten hat die Polizei 2001 in Goeteborg mit scharfer
Munition auf DemonstrantInnen geschossen.

Eine Person wurde fast getoetet und zwei wurden verletzt, davon war eineR
einE ZuschauerIn. Schweden hat waehrend seiner EU-Praesidentschaft im
Fruehjahr 2001 ein neues Mass gesetzt bei der Unterdrueckung von
Gipfelprotesten durch praeventive Polizeistrategien, durch die
Anschuldigungen von Politikern und Medien, die DemonstrantInnen seien
Terroristen und durch die bisher schlimmsten Urteile gegen
GipfeldemonstrantInnen.


238mal laengere Gefaengnisstrafen insgesamt

Das Ergebnis ist, dass die nach den Gipfelprotesten in Schweden
ausgesprochenen Urteile 238mal haerter sind als die in Nizza, Prag oder
Seattle!

In Seattle erhielten die Leute ein paar Tage Gefaengnis, maximal 9 Tage,

in Prag waren die Strafen zur Bewaehrung und keineR wurde inhaftiert,
einige wurden jedoch ausgewiesen,

und in Nizza erhielten zwei Personen jeweils einen Monat Gefaengnis.

In Schweden wurden bisher 41 Personen zu durchschnittlich 12 Monaten
Gefaengnis verurteilt fuer Anklagen auf gewaltsamen Krawall. Mindestens 8
weitere Personen haben ihre Verhandlungen noch vor sich. Die maximale
Laenge der Strafen in Schweden betraegt 2 1/2 Jahre - das ist 30mal mehr
als die maximale Strafe bei einem der vorhergehenden Gipfel.

Insgesamt wurden in Schweden seit Goeteborg 2001 476 Monate Gefaengnis
verhaengt.


> Record of arresting people at summits or taking them into custody:

Schweden haelt auch den Rekord bezueglich praeventiver Aktionen gegen
DemonstrantInnen bei Gipfeltreffen in der westlichen Welt, sowohl bezogen
auf die gesamte Anzahl von DemonstrantInnen beim Gipfel und die Gesamtzahl
von Personen, die von der Polizei festgenommen wurden.

Bereits beim Treffen der EU-Finanzminister in Malmoe am 21. April 2001 hat
die schwedische Polizei eine Praeventivstrategie angewendet und 266
DemonstrantInnen aus einer legalen, breit organisierten Demonstration von
2.000 Personen heraus verhaftet. Das sind 13,3% der DemonstrantInnen, ein
hoeherer Anteil als bei jeder anderen breit mobilisierten Demonstration
bei Gipfeltreffen in der westlichen Welt, seit die Protestdemonstrationen
bei Gipfeltreffen 1968 begannen.

In Goeteborg hat die schwedische Polizei wiederum ihre Praeventivstrategie
angewendet, indem sie 500 Personen in einer Schule bei der Gegenkonferenz
einkreiste, bevor ueberhaupt irgendeine Strassenaktion stattgefunden
hatte. Die Polizei stuermte schliesslich die Schule, um nach Waffen zu
suchen - fand aber keine.

Am naechsten Tag fand eine weitere Praeventivaktion der Polizei in
Goeteborg gegen eine Demonstration statt, bei der DemonstrantInnen
anfingen, Steine auf die Polizei zu werfen und die Beamten die Steine auf
die DemonstrantInnen zurueckwarfen. Am Ende des Tages griff die Polizei
eine Strassenparty an, so dass es zu Konfrontationen kam und die Polizei
schoss auf Menschen auf der Strasse.

929 Personen wurden von der Polizei waehrend des Goeteborger Gipfels
festgenommen oder in Gewahrsam genommen, die Mehrheit davon

in Verbindung mit dem Erstuermen der Schule durch die Polizei.

Nie zuvor hatte die Polizei bei einem vorherigen Gipfel so viele Menschen
festgenommen - ausser in Prag im Jahr 2000, wo es aehnliche Zahlen gab.

Das neue schwedische Modell, mit scharfer Munition auf
GipfeldemonstrantInnen zu schiessen und Schulen zu stuermen, in denen
DemonstrantInnen uebernachten, Treffen und Informationsbueros haben, wurde
nach Goeteborg auch beim G-8-Gipfel in Genua mit noch brutaleren Methoden
wiederholt. Die Prozesse um die repressiven Handlungen der italienischen
Regierung sind noch nicht beendet, es muss jedoch einbezogen werden, dass
die schwedische Regierung neue Massstaebe gesetzt hat, denen die anderen
nun folgen koennen.


Der 5. Juni

Am 5. Juni wird weltweit der Jahrestag der UN-Konferenz zur Umwelt
gedacht, deren Gastgeber 1972 der schwedische Premierminister Olof Palme
war. Dies war das erste Mal ueberhaupt, dass Volksbewegungen
Gegenkonferenzen, Demonstrationen und einen Dialog mit den offiziellen
Gipfeldelegationen verwirklichen konnten.

Im Jahr 2001 hat die schwedische Regierung statt dessen eine Strategie
eingefuehrt, mit der die Gipfel durch nie zuvor gesehene Repressionen und
Kriminalisierungen undemokratischer werden.

Wir rufen dazu auf, dieses Datum, in der Woche vor dem Jahrestag der EU-
Gipfel am 15.-16. Juni, zu nutzen, um die schwedische und internationale
Oeffentlichkeit auf die inakzeptablen Repressionen der schwedischen
Regierung aufmerksam zu machen!

Wir hoffen, dass ihr diese Proteste so schnell wie moeglich verbreitet, so
dass ueberall auf der Welt bekannt wird, was die Menschen von der
Kriminalisierung der Gipfelproteste halten. In Goeteborg wird am 15. Juni
eine Demonstration und ein Treffen stattfinden und wir bitten um
internationale Solidaritaet.


Die Organisation Friends of the Earth Schweden,

die Zentrale der schwedischen Gewerkschaft SAC,

das kuerzlich gegruendete Democracy Net

rufen zu friedlichen Protesten vor allen schwedischen Botschaften,
Konsulaten und aehnlichen Einrichtungen zur Unterstuetzung aller
inhaftierten Personen auf sowie um die Kriminalisierung und Repression der
Gipfelproteste und der globalisationskritischen Bewegung zu stoppen!

Ueberreicht eine Petition, macht ein Sit-In oder ein Demonstration in
Solidaritaet mit den schwedischen und internationalen Bewegungen gegen die
schwedische Regierung!

Schweden, 28. April 2002

Tord Björk, Miljöförbundet Jordens Vänner - Friends of the Earth Sweden,
 tord.bjork@mjv.se

Hannele Peltonen, SAC Syndikalisterna -Central Organization of Swedens
Workers,  sekretariatet@sac.se

Gerd Pettersson, Demokratinätet - Democracy Net,  d.p@gerd.pp.se


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