Καταστολή ενάντια σε ακτιβιστές για τα δικαιώματα των ζώων
m. athens imc 11 Jun 2008 16:10 GMT (μεταφράστηκε από τον/την m. athens imc)Στις 7:00 το πρωί της 21 Μαΐου 2008, τα μέλη των επίλεκτων αυστριακών αστυνομικών δυνάμεων (WEGA) εισέβαλαν σε διάφορα διαμερίσματα σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα. Μερικοί από τους ενοίκους ξύπνησαν με το όπλο στο πρόσωπό τους. Ερευνήθηκαν συνολικά είκοσι τρία (23) διαμερίσματα, σπίτια και γραφεία στη Βιέννη, την κάτω Αυστρία, τις περιοχές Styria και Tirol. Για να εισβάλλουν σε πολλά από τα διαμερίσματα οι αστυνομικές δυνάμεις κλωτσούσαν τις πόρτες. Οι αστυνομικοί εισέβαλαν όπως στις κινηματογραφικές ταινίες του Hollywood. Η έρευνα μέσα στους χώρους των σπιτιών και των γραφείων ξεκίνησε μόνο αφού είχαν "ασφαλίσει" τους τρομοκρατημένους ενοίκους με χειροπέδες στους τοίχους.
Repression in Austria
Όλοι οι συλληφθέντες είναι ενεργοί αγωνιστές για τα δικαιώματα των ζώων στην Αυστρία. Επίσης ερευνήθηκαν τα γραφεία τεσσάρων τουλάχιστον ομάδων για τα δικαιώματα των ζώων. Οι 10 συλληφθέντες μερικοί από τους οποίους βρίσκονται σε απεργία πείνας κρατούνται ακόμα. Στην ακροαματική διαδικασία που έγινε στις 6 Ιούνη για να επιβληθούν εγγυήσεις και να αφεθούν ελεύθεροι, ο δικαστής αποφάσισε τελικά να συνεχιστεί η κράτησή για τουλάχιστον 4 βδομάδες ακόμα.
Έχουν γίνει ήδη κινήσεις αλληλεγγύης στην Αυστρία και σε όλο τον κόσμο για να απαιτήσουν την άμεση απελευθέρωση των ακτιβιστών και για να σταματήσει η κράτησή τους (δείτε τον παρακάτω κατάλογο διαμαρτυριών).
Κείμενα στα Αγγλικά: Legal Support Update (June 5, 2008) | Call for Global Solidarity Action Day on 4th of June 2008 | Legal Support Update (May 28, 2008) | Austrian Activists in Prison (uk indymedia) | Solidarity Photos | Legal Support Information (May 24, 2008)) | Legal Support Information (May 21, 2008)
Links: Anti-repression/ Solidarity Website | tierbefreier.de English solidarity website | at.indymedia.org
List of protests (incomplete):
May 21: Graz | Wien
May 22: Berlin
May 23: Stockholm | München
May 24: Hamburg (Photos), Salzburg (Photos) | Bregenz (Photos) | Bremgarten | Innsbruck
May 25: around the prison in Wr. Neustadt (Call-out | Poster | Photos from ending in Vienna)
May 27: Münster | Stockholm
May 28: Leipzig | Kiel
May 29: Vienna | Berlin
May 30: Vienna (Call-out) | Vienna | Salzburg | Helsinki (fotos | more fotos) | Talinn (Estonia)
May 31: Graz (Call-out) | Stuttgart
June 2: Frankfurt
June 3: Frankfurt | Salzburg
June 4: global day of action with protest in Bern | Bregenz | Celovec/Klagenfurt | Düsseldorf | Edinburgh | Feldkirch | Frankfurt | Graz | Hamburg | Helsinki | Linz | London | Salzburg | Stockholm | Tallin | Torun | Vienna | Warsaw | Wellington | and so on...
June 5: Frankfurt
June 7: Innsbruck (Photos) | Linz
Beside the listed ones, animal right activists run daily protests at the prisons in Vienna, Wr. Neustadt and Eisenstadt. A updated list is available in antirep2008.lnxnt.org
Background information:
The grounds for the searches was the accusation Formation of a Criminal Organization according to §278a of the criminal code. There were arrest warrants for 10 of the people targeted by the searches. The basis of the arrest warrants was the accusation of Danger of the Destruction of Evidence (because, for example, the targeted people communicated via encrypted e-mails) as well as Danger of Commiting a Crime (partially because the targeted people have been active in the animal rights scene for a long time). Both lines of argumentation stand in blatant opposition to the presumption of innocence. A criminal organization is completely arbitratily constructed to be made responsible for all unsolved criminal offenses of the last few years. The accusations are not substantiated by any evidence; on the contrary - the authorities apparently hope to find evidence which confirms their suspicions through the house searches. Up til now and also in the future the suspicion of Forming a Criminal Organization can not be corroborated either by evidence or vague assumptions.
The targeted persons were brought directly from their apartments to the police detention center at Rossauer Lände. (Update: the targeted persons are now scattered in jails in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna, and Eisenstadt.) During the house searches a large part of the targeted persons were denied the ability to call a person of their confidence or legal representatives. Friends who wanted to observe the legality of the actions were also denied the possibility to speak to the targeted persons.
The actions of the authorities were out of proportion. The early morning storming of the apartments by masked WEGA officers with drawn weapons can only be described as completely excessive.
It remains unclear what the specific motive for these operations was. It can be assumed that the time and realization of these operations have a political background. In any case unpopular political actions are being criminalized and made impossible. Should this wave of repression which obviously was decreed from those in power remain unquestioned, this wave will certainly hit other forms of resistance and areas of activism.
The repression of leftist structures reached a new high point today with the wave of house searches and arrests. House searches by masked WEGA officers who kick down doors and and wake sleeping persons with drawn weapons have not been employed against the radical left in the past several years. The last time that a similar house search was made was after the Opera Ball Protest in 2001 directed against the EKH (a squat and autonomous center in Vienna).
This sort of action from the officials does not only ignite fear in the targeted persons. Friends and other activists are intended to be frightened by such actions as well. The excessive and sometimes brutal police operations try to communicate that resistance is not worth it. We can not allow ourselves to be isolated from one another. Together we can talk about our fears and develop strategies for dealing with them.
We are asking for solidarity for those targeted by the wave of repression. It does not matter if you are vegan, feminist, antifaschist, against surveillance, atomic energy or police brutality - we are all targeted, even if only a few are directly affected at the moment!
Organize benefit parties, donate money for the legal help, network with each other, inform yourself about your rights, learn about and use your right to remain silent and learn about your rights in the case of a house search!
For more information and updates: at.indymedia.org and antirep2008.tk
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david 12.Jun.2008 17:08
it sounds like the are making sweeps in anticipation of the opec meeting next month.nothing like fascist persecuting the conscious of the local community in preparation for offering the financially desperate women of austria to the concubine collecting of sex trade religious concubine collecting practitioners onto the women of austria.
defend the innocence from the epitomy of world problems.drunk drug induced arabs wanting only to degrade women of other cultures becuz they destroyed all the innocence of where they are from.
goddamn uncle sams help in thwarting the efforts of local communities that know the problemns and try to solve them befor they are devoured by state accomodation to thier own citizen sexploitation.
Polski informacji
link 14.Jun.2008 00:13
Warszawie, 04-06-2008
pl.indymedia.org | empatia.pl
Represje przeciwko działaczom w Austrii!!! (31-05-2008)
Ślijmy listy protestacyjne przeciw represjom (31-05-2008)
Brutalne aresztowania w Austrii (02-06-2008)
Relacja z protestu pod Ambasadą Austrii w Warszawie (04-06-2008)
SOLI AKCJE Z ARESZTOWANYMI W AUSTRII-4.06.08 (05-06-2008)
Oświadczenie prasowe Vegan Society (10-06-2008)
Polski informacji
link 14.Jun.2008 00:36
Warszawie 04-06-2008
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Call Out for the Protest on June 21, 2008 in Vienna
Against Borders, Prisons, and Repression 14.Jun.2008 10:39
REPRESSION KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES!!
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org
https://at.indymedia.org
http://no-racism.net
SOLIDARITY DOESN'T NEED ANY!!
Against Borders, Prisons, and Repression
On May 21, 2008 24 apartments, houses, and offices were stormed and searched by special forces of the police (WEGA) throughout Austria. Some people were awoken in their beds with weapons drawn on them. The grounds for the house searches is the accusation of formation of a criminal organization according to §278a. Specific allegations have still not been brought against individual persons.
10 activists have been detained for weeks and are still in jail!
We declare our solidarity with the imprisoned and want to show that, no matter how long the detainments and repression last, the support from outside will not end! We will demonstrate to lend a voice to our solidarity with the prisoners and our anger against the state repression apparatus.
We want to make clear that we do not need an occasion like the present one to know that repression is an intrinsic part of the daily praxis of the state of Austria.
The fates of those such as Seibane Wague, Markus Omofuma and many others who lost their lives during operations of the Austrian police must never be forgotten.
What appear to be tragic isolated cases must be understood as the corresponding logic of the Austrian state, which is namely racist, homophobic, sexist or simply against all those who desired or undesired evade state control. Those supposed isolates cases simply represent the pinnacle of a system of repression against “difficult” persons and minorities.
Today we show are solidarity with all those who are confronted with state repression in all its various forms. It does not matter whether we are talking about the politically organized left in France and Germany, which is being criminalized through the use of “terrorism paragraphs,” animal rights activists who are being held in prison in Austria because of their engagement for animal rights, people who have been confronted with surveillance and spying, immigrants and the unemployed, who are harassed by state officials or asylum seekers who are confronted with repression almost everywhere in the world, often in the form of torture, deportation jails and deportation itself. Repression knows no boundaries, solidarity doesn't need any.
Only a few have been directly targeted – but we are all intended targets!
* Abolish all “criminalization paragraphs” like the Austrian §278a and the German §129a/b!
* Immediate closing of all deportation jails!
* Unlimited right to stay for everyone!
* The immediate release of all political prisoners!
* Disbandment of the WEGA!
Meeting point:
Sat, June 21, 2008, 3 p.m.
Uhlplatz, 1080 Vienna
(near metro stop U6 Josestädterstraße)
Info:
02. July 2008 - Tag der Solidarität / Day of Solidarity (en/de)
Soldarität geht weiter - Solidarity continues 22.Jun.2008 23:28
(english)
https://at.indymedia.org/node/10626 
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org/?page_id=10
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org
https://at.indymedia.org
https://at.indymedia.org/node/10626
http://www.myspace.com/smash278
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org/?page_id=10
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org
https://at.indymedia.org
The activists are still in prison, one of them still in hungerstrike, put with forced feeding by the authorities. The solidarity protests are still going on - lots of protests around the prisons, but also in many other parts in austria and abroad.
On June 21, 2008, one month after the arrest, some 400 people ralleyed in vienna (see call above). This demonstration also went to one of Viennas detention centers for immigrants (a prison, running by the police) and to the investigation prison, where some of the animal right activists are detained. The demonstration ended at the monument for marcus omofuma, who was killed during a forced deporation on May 1, 1999.
Report in german with some pics:
Regularly updated chronology of protests:
There is a call for furter protests:
Please join: 2nd of July 2008 - Day of Solidarity
The next evaluation of the detention for the animal rights activists in Austria will take place on Friday July 4 in Wiener Neustadt. There the decision will be made as to whether the activists will remain in remand custody.
To inform the public and the media about the new evaluation and this Austrian Affair we want to spread the word for their freedom two days before, on the 2nd of July.
Please join the International Day of Solidarity and organize Demos in your City! Let's spread the word for the freedom of the 10 activists in Austria and demand an end to repression of social activism.
Infos:
(deutsch)
Die AktivistInnen sind weiterhin in Untersuchungshaft, und einer noch immer in Hungerstreik - er wird seit einiger Zeit zwangsernährt. Die Solidaritätsaktionen gehen weiter. Zahlreiche laute Demonstration gibt rund um die Gefängnisse in Wien, Wr. Neutstadt und Eisenstadt, aber auch an vielen anderen Orten in Österreich und darüber hinaus.
Am 21. Juni 2008, genau einen Monat nach den Razzien und Verhaftungen fand in Wien eine Demonstration statt, an der sich ca. 400 Leute beteiligten. Ein Bericht mit Bildern findet sich hier:
Außerdem gab es an diesem Tag auch eine Solidaritäts-Straßenfest in Wien, dass trotz Schikanen durch die Behörden erfolgreich stattfand. Mehrere 100 TeilnehmerInnen feierten bis um Mitternacht.
Infos zum Fest:
Eine regemäßig upgedatete Übersicht über die zahlreichen Soliaktionen findet sich hier: Regularly updated chronology of protests:
Es gibt auch einen weiteren Aufruf für Proteste:
Bitte mach mit! 2. Juli - Tag der Solidarität
Der nächste Haftprüfungstermin der inhaftierten TierrechtsaktivistInnen findet voraussichtlich am 4. Juli in Wiener Neustadt statt. Dort wird die Entscheidung gefällt, ob sie weiterhin festgehalten werden oder nicht.
Um die Öffentlichkeit und die Medien erneut auf diesen Justizskandal und den neuen Haftprüfungstermin aufmerksam zu machen, findet am 2.Juli, 2 Tage vor dem neuen Haftprüfungstermin, ein Internationaler Solidaritätstag für die Gefangenen statt.
Bitte beteilige auch Du dich am Internationalen Tag der Solidarität und organisiere Demos in deiner Stadt. Setze ein Zeichen für die Freilassung der 10 politischen Gefangenen und gegen die Diskriminierung von Sozialem Engagement!
Infos:
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Update July 7, 2008: Pre-Trial Detention Extended / Untersuchungshaft verlängert
freedom for all! 08.Jul.2008 09:52
Short Update: Pre-Trial Detention Extended for all 10 Animal Rights Activists!
https://at.indymedia.org
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org
The following information has been received from Wiener Neustadt, where the reevaluation of the pre-trial detentions took place: the detention was extended for another two months for all 10 activists. The next reevaluation of the pre-trial detentions will take place in September unless the Appellate Court declares the detainment unlawful.
We will not let ourselves be discouraged and we wish the best for all our friends and comrades in jail!
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Kurz Update: U-Haft verlängert für alle 10 Aktivist_innen!
Update: Soeben erreichen uns die Infos aus Wiener Neustadt - die U-Haft wurde bei allen 10 Betroffenen auf weitere zwei Monate erstreckt. Erst Anfang September sind dann wieder reguläre Haftverhandlungen, außer das OLG erklärt in den nächsten Tagen die U-Haft für rechtswidrig.
Wir lassen uns nicht unterkriegen und hoffen also das Beste für unsere FreundInnen und GenossInnen im Knast!
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Furter information / Weitere Informationen:
Update July 16, 2008
legal support 21.Jul.2008 12:32
A Complete Miscarriage of Justice - OLG Upholds Pre-trial Confinement for Animal Rights Activists!
After the pre-trial confinement was extended for all ten imprisoned animal rights activists in Wiener Neustadt on July 7, 2008, the Oberlandesgericht (OLG, the Appellate Court) upheld the confinement. This means that the imprisoned activists will remain in confinement for another two months until the next evaluation in September.
Monika Nowak, the spokeswoman for the legal support, reacted to the OLG-Decision, "The confirmation of the confinement for the animal rights activists is outrageous! The miscarriage is complete! This opens up the floodgates for the future criminalization of NGOs."
It is scandalous that house searches and arrests of ten animal rights activists were conducted on May 21, 2008 without any specific charges. They could only be surveilled and investigated by drawing on the smokescreen paragraph 278a - Membership in a Criminal Organization.
It is scandalos that the pre-trial confinement was justified with "Danger of Destruction of Evidence" because of e-mail encryption and with "Danger of Committing Crimes" because of the long-time political activism of the prisoners.
It is also scandalous that the prosecution has repeatedly offered to release some of the activists if they disclose the passwords for their computers.
It is likewise scandalous that it is being held against some of the prisoners that they have repeatedly applied their right to remain silent from the police and prosecution and insist that they will only make statements in the course of a fair trial.
All this suggests that the activists are being subjected to a sort of coercive detention to make them incriminate themselves - which is not a legal practice in Austria - because they have not been accused of specific criminal acts and also the disproportionately violent house searches apparently produced none of the hoped for evidence of any kind.
Monika Nowak, spokesperson of the legal support, sums up, "I demand the immediate release of the prisoners and a complete and independent elucidation of the polical motivations of this campaign aimed at criminalization from the police and justice departments."
english solidarity webpage
Link 28.Jul.2008 13:29
Austria Solidarity: An International Group of Organisations And Individuals Concerned About Human Rights in Austria
http://www.austriasolidarity.com
Chris Released!!!
antirep2008 15.Aug.2008 19:19
On Tuesday, August 13 2008 there were evaluations of the pre-trial detentions of Chris and Martin in Wiener Neustadt. Their attorneys had applied for an immediate release from detention from the presiding judge in the case. Although the pre-trial detention was reaffirmed by the judge for Martin, the judge decided to immediately release Chris. Although the prosecutors have appealed this decision, Chris is currently living in freedom.
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org
all the prisoners have finally been set free!
pleasure 02.Sep.2008 16:01
today, sep 2, 2008, the higher regional court decided that there is no more need to keep the prisoners in investigation prison. one of them was already released on august 13., 2008. this afternoon, the 9 remaining prisonerns have set free!
http://www.austriasolidarity.com (multilingual)
http://antirep2008.lnxnt.org (german, partly english)
https://at.indymeida.org (german, partly english)
this are the very good news. and it's not clear, what will happen this friday, sep 5, 2008 - international solidarity day - and saturday, sep 6, 2008, with a big demonstration in vienna...
the prisoners are released now, but this does not meen that the inquiries are stopped. the people still can expect a trial.
for further updates: