Israeli Shin Bet Electrocuted Child prisoners to extract Confessions

September 1, 2010

Following a visit yesterday to some young prisoners being held at the Megiddo Prison, lawyers for the Ministry of Detainees have stated that the young prisoners testified under oath that they had been interrogated and systematically electrocuted and tortured by Israeli intelligence officers in settlements near to Palestinian cities.

According to Salim Redouane who was arrested near Qalqilya on 08.05.2010, he was kept in a camp near Tzofin for 3 hours before being transferred to the settlement of Ariel where he was questioned by Shin Bet interrogators. His head was repeatedly hit against the prison room wall in an effort to get him to confess and he was beaten severely. The investigators threatened to burn his skin if he did not confess to the accusations against him.

Another detainee, Mohamed Ali Radwan, informed the lawyers that he was arrested at his home in Qalqilya Azzun on 3/8/2010 and one of the soldiers forced him to take off his shirt in order to use it as a blindfold. He was handcuffed and then taken somewhere near the village where he was told to hand in what was in his possession before he was hit in the back with a rifle butt and kicked repeatedly in the stomach and on the back. One of the soldiers then dragged him across the ground which resulted in deep wounds on his hands and he was taken to the Ariel settlement where he was questioned for several hours and was hit on the head, in the face and all over his the body.

According to the testimony of Yahya Ali Abdel-Hafez, born 03.07.1995 and a resident of the Qalqilya Governorate of Azzoun, he was arrested on 05.08.2010 near the city of Qalqilya and taken to a camp near Tzofin where he was kept for 3 hours before being transferred to the settlement of Ariel and interrogated. During the interrogation, he did not recognize some of the charges against him and so he was beaten in the face several times and repeatedly electrocuted. Under duress, Yahya eventually signed the statement to avoid further torture.

Lawyers also visited Abdul Hamid Abdul Latif Sa'id Abu Haniyeh who is currently in year 10 and was born on 12/11/1994. A resident of Azzun, he was arrested on 05.08.2010 near Qalqilya, where was also taken to the Ariel settlement and interrogated by Shin Bet interrogators. He was beaten up severely before being hit hard by a large jolt of electricity. A terrified Abdul Hamid who thought he would be imprisoned at the Megiddo prison along with his brothers, signed the statement he was given.

Lawyers for the Ministry of Prisoners also visited Ahmed Hussein Mustafa who was born on 10/01/1994 and is from Jalazoun, north of Ramallah. He was arrested from his home at three in the morning on 11.02.2010 and was beaten up inside his house before being taken to the Beit El settlement. Ahmed remained in the settlement until daybreak when he was transferred to Benjamin where he was fined 2000 NIS and sentenced to 20 months in detention. His two brothers were detained in the Negev prison

The Russian Embassy in Minsk Attacked by Anarchists

Assailants attack Russian embassy in Minsk with fire bombs
08:54 31/08/2010
© Photo Website of the Russian Embassy in Belarus
Unknown assailants attacked the Russian Embassy in the Belarusian capital of Minsk with fire bombs late on Monday, a local emergencies spokesman said.
"At around 10:50 p.m. local time (19:50 GMT), two fire bombs were thrown onto the territory of the Russian Embassy," the spokesman said. "One of them hit a car parked on the premises."
There were no casualties, he added.


Responsibility for the recent attack on the Russian embassy, caused a stir in the press, claimed a group of Belarusian anarchists. Quote the statement posted on the website of Indymedia: In the evening on August 30 a group of anarchists was conducted attack with Molotov cocktails at Russian embassy in Minsk. Was damaged one of the official cars. By this action, we express our anger and protest against the arrests and repression against social activists, who defended forests Khimki Moscow. Our friends are beaten by mercenaries from among the fascists, riot police chases and screws all in a row, threats, detentions and arrests have become the norm.Our friends are forced to endure the hardships in the dungeons and live in fear of being planted, because it stood for truth, for the people, for the right to a normal environment. But bureaucrats and capitalists concerned only kickbacks and profits, they do not care what will happen tomorrow and they are ready to virulent measures to suppress any protest, any dissatisfaction. What's next, death squads? We stand in solidarity with our comrades, and support only direct methods of struggle, because they are afraid only of force on the rest of them do not care. It's funny to read reviews and discussions about the campaign on Internet forums.We are equally repugnant to all the mafia clans under the names "the rulers of Belarus" and "the rulers of Russia." A simple working people of both countries does not shine anything good from this political bickering for power, should not behave like this mendacious politicians. People, wake up! Can not do without conspiracy theories to justify any act of protest and discontent? Every day we see theft and lawlessness, but around only downcast glances and timid kitchen conversations.It's time to gather their strength and to believe that we deserve a better life. Freedom for all prisoners! No political repression! Down with the officials, gangsters and cops! Human rights and social justice!
http://belarus.avtonom.org/?p=15171

Communique from Hiding in South America Concerning FRAME UP of August 14 in Chile

translated from the italian translation in culmine

Thursday, August 26, 2010

We are writing from clandestinity all over South America. We delegates of the undersigned collectives are making an effort with the times to convene to send a message of truth to all aware people oppressed by the State of Chile.

1 - We condemn the terrorist way of acting of the State of Chile over the past 200 years of systematic repression and social inequality maintained by blood and fire by each of its rotting institutions.
2 - With the full force of our insurgent people we REJECT the performance of searches and arrests that plagued the young people on Saturday, August 14.
3 - With total absolute responsibility we hereby WE DECLARE that ALL those arrested do not belong to, nor have they ever been part of, the collectives that have decided to respond to historic State violence with bombs. We know this and the government of the clown Piñera and Attorney Peña also know it.
4 – WE ACCUSE, as directly responsible for this TV show, the State, the bosses and the fawning press, they have all hidden the social violence that they have imposed, pointing the finger at the occasional bomb explosions that are simply the outcome of the inequalities and oppression of this snob capitalism. THE STATE IMPOSES THE SOCIAL WAR, we did not invent it, we who are its victims. We, on the contrary, have stopped being victims and have risen up as free human beings.
5 – WE HAVE NEVER BEEN in the Occupied houses. Any person of normal intelligence knows that those are cultural spaces in which young people meet to converse, debate, and hope to live at community level. If the state CRIMINALISES these places is only due to pure myopia and implicit defeat in wanting to destroy anything they cannot understand. The systematic indiscriminate repression of the young is the zenith of the orthodox fascist.
6 – WE HAVE NEVER SUBMITTED TO nor have we entered into alliances with political parties or movements related to the right, centre or left. WE NEITHER HAVE NOR DO WE RECOGNISE the authority of anyone, either bureaucrats or marxist ex-combatants nor people with mental problems that claim actions that they never carried out (like this stranger who stabbed his girlfriend and still survives in prison). WE ARE libertarians. WE DO NOT HAVE MILITARY HIERARCHIES OR PARTY DIRECTIVES. WE ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. WE ARE EVERYONE.
7 - We, the undersigned collective, WE HAVE PLACED BOMBS. Our objectives were: banks, financial corporations, embassies, police stations, barracks, churches, political parties, gyms of the lords of this country, everything that belongs to the historical oppressors of the working people. WE DO NOT REPENT, moreover IT IS OUR PRIDE, as is the fact that so far no police have approached us. WE ARE THEIR DEFEAT.
8 – WE REALISE that the summer earthquake struck most of the structures of all the collectives, that limited our actions and so far it has not been possible to rebuild what was lost.
9 - In these over 20 years we have been using different types of weapons. If we had wanted we could have caused fatalities. The famous TNT has been a part of the popular arsenal for a number of years. The office of Chilectra attack was not the first time that we have used it, all the comrades responsible for this attack confirm so here. If you want to know where we got it the answer is simple: from the market, the same that you idolize and the new prosecutor protects. (In the investigations the Chilean military intelligence are looking into the actions carried out with the explosive TNT, - NDT).
10 - The Prosecutor Peña. What can we say about him. What everybody knows : that he was a cocaine addict as a student, called “jalandro” by his neighbors for being jalero, with a greater sense of inferiority than his stature, hungry for power and for the chair of national Attorney, a friend of big drugs traffickers at the expense of the small ones that he arrested, liar, coward and potential murderer. This is Attorney Peña. Journalists: DO NOT BE AFRAID to know the truth about this sinister bureaucrat.
11 – WE DECLARE OUR COLLECTIVE REPUDIATION of the frame-up against the 14 young people. Those guilty of the libertarian bombings are the State and capital.
FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
ANTISTATE RESISTANCE!

FUERZAS AUTONÓMICAS Y DESTRUCTIVAS LEÓN CZOLGOSZ
BANDA ANTIPATRIOTA SEVERINO DI GIOVANNI
FEDERACIÓN REVUELTA 14F – BRIGADA GAETANO BRESCI
BANDA DINAMITERA EFRAÍN PLAZA OLMEDO
MIGUEL ARCÁNGEL ROSCIGNA
TAMAYO GAVILÁN
ANTONIO ROMÁN ROMÁN
COLUMNA DURRUTI
CARAVANAS ICONOCLASTAS POR EL LIBRE ALBEDRÍO

Anarchists Attack two Banks in Tacoma WA us

The communique goes down like this:

"One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington.
One of them being Wells Fargo the main investor in GEO Group and
the Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant detention center
(prison) that sits comfortably in the Tacoma tide flats. “NO
PRISONS (A)” was spray painted on the side of the building and 3
windows where smashed. Bank of America also had an ATM card slot
glued. Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers
(including Merrlin Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp.

In solidarity with all imprisoned, in all prisons,
And for the destruction of the prison world.

- Anarchists"

Moscow Russia: Anti-Fascist Needs Help For Treatment

August 29th, 2010
Anarchist and anti-fascist from Moscow, who was attacked by nazis on 15th of August 2010 after a football match, needs financial help for treatment. His life isn’t menaced, the harm to the health can be assessed as moderate, but treatment requires significant amounts of money.
You may read here how to donate:
In article on website of Ukrainian Helsinki group in Ukrainian language you may see photos of the damages.
Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow
P.O. Box 13 109028 Moscow Russia
abc-msk AA riseup DD net
http://www.avtonom.org/abc
http://www.myspace.com/abcmsc
http://antifa-action.org.ua/en/node/863

Khimki Forest is Saved! Now Save the Prisoners. Russia

To friends of Russia and forests everywhere:
The Khimki forest is saved ¬ – Now save the activists!
Thanks to an impressive solidarity and historically courageous struggle, activists in Russia from all parts of society supported by people in common have been able to save the Khimki forest close to Moscow. The plan was to build a toll high way through one of the last forests in the green belt surrounding the city. Direct action to save the forest and wider and wider support at street rallies and in opinion polls made president Medvedev decide in favour of protecting the forest for the moment.
Russian democratic culture has shown its strength in a historically important battle. Journalists exposing corrupt economic interests with political support in the project of the high way through the Khimki forest have been attacked and crippled for life. Environmentalists, antifascists, human rights activists and liberal and left wing parties have together with many others been able to confront the interests of the exploiters of the forest.
No to new Moscow trials against activists!
Russia brought literature to the world that inspire generations everywhere and Soviet Union brought us the great victory over German fascism. Cultural inspiration and sacrifice for which we are grateful. Moscow brought us also trials in the 1930s built mostly on fraud and sometimes on grossly exaggerated charges.
The news about the successful outcome of the Khimki forest conflict is accompanied with the information that the activists Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov are still in jail facing trials which we fear will be built on fraud evidence. They were arrested after a protest action at the Khimki administration building causing some material damage in July in defence of the Russian forest without evidence against them and against normal procedure. The reason why they were arrested was not that they were present at the action but that they were well-known spokespersons for antifascists in Moscow in other matters. They are threatened by many years in the dangerous Russian prison system.
The Khimki forest is saved but it has happened before in Russia in other environmental cases that promises have been given and then not kept. There is only one way to make the victory in the battle for the Khimki forest a victory in the struggle for all forests in Russia and the world. That is to turn the victory into a struggle for the defenders of the forest and all those that have been arrested as the result of the conflict. Only by showing our seriousness in continuing to defend the victory and those that made it possible can we be for sure that the forest will be protected and make our
commitment a warning to anyone exploiting forest anywhere in disrespect of ecological and social concerns.
This is why we call upon organizations and individuals everywhere to continue the struggle.
Free the activists Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov!
Save the Khimki forest for ever and protect forests everywhere!

Statement by Friends of the Earth Sweden
August 27th 2010

10 11 12 September 2010 Earth Liberation Meeting in Italy

L’idea di dare vita ad un momento di riflessione e approfondimento sulle tematiche di liberazione animale e della terra nasce perché riteniamo urgente e doveroso mettere in risalto, analizzando esempi concreti di lotte, la necessità di riconsiderare queste due pratiche di liberazione come parte di un percorso capace di minare le fondamenta di questa società.
Vogliamo sottolineare quindi la centralità ed il valore di questi due campi di intervento all’interno della lotta per l’ abbattimento delle logiche autoritarie e dei sistemi che essi hanno generato, contestualizzando nel capitalismo il sistema con cui dobbiamo scontrarci e riconoscendo nell’avanzata tecno scientifica il motore che consente il suo sviluppo e sopravvivenza.
Pensiamo che la critica debba necessariamente passare attraverso la pratica, per questo non è nostra intenzione fare di questo incontro la glorificazione di alcune teorie rispetto ad altre, vorremmo piuttosto preparare il terreno per generare una conflittualità diffusa, un tentativo quindi, di porre le basi per l’unità dei diversi fronti di lotta.
I nostri percorsi nel corso degli anni si sono sviluppati tra la specificità miope di alcune lotte ,che ci ha lasciato e ci lascia tutt'ora perplessi, e la ricerca eccessiva di una coerenza ideologica che troppo spesso da spazio solo alla riflessione. Di conseguenza, quello che pensiamo sia interessante affrontare è un approccio alle lotte, comprese quelle con obbiettivi specifici, che tenga conto non tanto delle differenze che caratterizzano le nostre priorità, bensì di quello che ci unisce verso un obbiettivo comune: l’abbattimento di questa maledetta società assassina. Le lotte per la liberazione animale ed ecologiste radicali, non potranno mai essere complete e tangibili se non supportate da una critica sociale, poiché è la società stessa che produce le dinamiche e logiche che portano allo sfruttamento in tutte le sue forme.
La storia ci insegna che un movimento è forte tanto più è coeso, il settarismo è controproducente e indebolisce tutti. Troviamo il tempo per cercare di gettarsi nella sperimentazione imprevedibile ed illimitata di una lotta che sappia tener conto della sostanziale unità del conflitto.

The idea of giving life to a moment of reflection and study on issues of animal liberation and earth was created because we feel urgent and necessary to emphasize, by analyzing specific examples of struggles, the need to reconsider these two practices of liberation as part of a path undermining the foundations of this society.
Therefore we emphasize the centrality and the value of these two fields of intervention in the fight for the 'destruction of logics and authoritarian systems that they have generated, in contextualizing the capitalist system with which we encounter and recognizing scientific technology in the advance engine that allows its development and survival.
We think that the criticism must necessarily pass through practice, this is not our intention to make this meeting the glorification of some theories over others, would rather pave the way to generate a widespread conflict, an attempt thus to lay the foundations for the unity of different fronts.
Our routes over the years have developed between the specificity of some shortsighted struggles, he left us and leaves us still perplexed, and research too ideological coherence that too often only room for reflection. Consequently, what we think is interesting is an approach to tackle conflicts, including those with specific goals, taking into account not so much the differences that characterize our priorities, but what unites us towards a common goal: the destruction of this damn murderous society. The struggle for animal liberation and ecological radicals can never be comprehensive and tangible if not supported by social criticism, as is the company that produces the dynamics and logics that lead to exploitation in all its forms.
History teaches us that a movement is stronger the more cohesive, sectarianism is counterproductive and undermines all. We find the time to try to throw in the unpredictable and unlimited testing of a fight able to take into account the substantial unity of the conflict.


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