Please send letters of support to those in prison following the EU summit in Sweden:
Paul Robinson now released
Previous message from comrades in Sweden
We are still being over worked here in Gothenburg but we begin to see the
light of the of the tunnel now. The last trials has started now, this monday,
and will finish next Tuesday hopefully. This is a group of people that are called
the communication group and are charge of being the leaders and organisers behind
EVERYTHING. Rather stupid. We still need money and books, mostly in swedish
but also in german, danish and english. We bring the prisoners book packedes
1-2 a week and post as soon we reciew anything. It takes about a week from that
we deliver to the prison before our friends have them in their hands. We also
bring them money every week to buy candy, fruit and cigarettes for. They can
also phone for these money. Here follows a summary of the people in prison and
their sentences. Look at http://www.motkraft.net
for more info:
Accused: "SS", 19 year old German citizen, shot in the leg during
riots.
Charge: 2 cases of Rioting
Sentence: 14 (6+8) months prison. Expulsion for 5 years.
Appeal by both the accused and prosecutor.
Accused: 7 Danish citizens, "JB" "CWC" "RLH" "LJ"
"JM" "KS" "JS"
Charge: Rioting
Sentences: "JB" 6 months prison
"CWC" 5 months prison
"RLH" 5 months prison
"LJ" 8 months prison
"JM" 1 month juvenille prison
"KS" 8 months prison
"JS" 6 months prison
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "AA", 26 year old from Stockholm
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: Not guilty
Appeal by prosecutor
Accused "GI", 30 year old from Gothenburg
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 10 months prison
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "EH", 19 year old from Stockholm, "IA" 19 year
old from Dalarna
Charge: Rioting
Sentence, Both 8 months prison
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "SB" JPJ" "KM" "JDR" "SKS",
5 Danish citizens arrested in an apartment
the week before EU Top Meeting
Charge: Preperation of assault and sabotage
Sentence: All not guilty
Appeal by prosecutor
Accused: "LAL", 43 year old Italian citizen living in Norway Charge:
Rioting Sentence: 2 years and 6 months prison, expulsion for 10 years.
Appeal by both the accused and prosecutor
Accused: "JE" 20 year old from Stockholm
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 2 years and 6 months prison
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "PR" 33 year old English citizen
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 1 year prison, expulsion for 5 years.
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "MV" 24 year old from Malmö
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 1 year prison
Appeal by both accused and prosecutor
Accused: "J-BB", 24 year old German citizen
Charge: Rioting and preperation of assault
Sentence: 15 months prison, expulsion for 10 years
Appeal by both accussed and prosecutor
Accused: "NTA", 38 year old from Gothenburg
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 9 months prison
Appeal by both the accussed and prosecutor
Accused: "TKK" 21 year old Finn from Gothenburg
Charge: Assault of civil servant, preparation to assault of civil servant,
robbery and assault
Sentence: 8 months prison
Not appealed
Accused: "JB" 24 year old from Partille
Charge: Sabotage
Sentence: 1 year prison
Appeal by the accused
Accused: "PP" 24 year old from Norsborg
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: Not guilty
Appeal by prosecutor
Accused: "HH" 20 year old German citizen
Charge: Rioting
Sentence: 14 months prison
Appeal by both the accused and prosecutor
Accused: "IJA" 19 year old from Gothenburg
Charge: Rioting and vandalism
Sentence: 2 years prison plus fines
Appealed by the accused
Accused: "JP" 25 year old from Angered
Charge: 2 cases of violent rioting and theft
Sentence: 4 years prison
Appeal:
Accussed: "PAB" "LMJ" "BMAL" "SJN" "SUN"
"RSE" "MHRW" "HES" Charge: Rioting or Assistance
to Rioting Sentence:
Appeal:
Send things directly to the prisoners:
(name of the person)
Box 216
401 23
Gothenburg
SWEDEN
To send stuff to us and then to prisoners:
Solidaritygroup GBG
c/o Syndikalistiskt Forum
Box 7267
402 35 Gothenburg
SWEDEN
To visit is a long and difficult prosess. Please let us know atleast a week
in advance and we will help with sleeping place and contact with the prison.
If you want to send us money pleas contact us and we help you in the best way
of doing this.
Sweden, Information about the political prisoners in Gothenburg
Here comes some information about the political prisoners in Gothenburg. During the EU-meeting 51 people were arrested. One was a mistake and released a week later after the polisen had discovered the mistake. Some people has been released with out charge since then and some off them are still suspects. 6 people has been declared innocent by the court, 1 convicted for having hashish is his apartment instead of the riot charge since the court found him innocent of that, 23 people has been found guilty of rioting and the sentences has been from 8 month to four years. The most common has been around one year. Two persons has been sentence to 2.5 years and one to 4. This people has been accused of being leaders of the riots. 8 people are still in prison waiting for the trials to begin and will have to wait until the end of Aug. Most will complain to an higher court. The person that got shot are now feeling fine and are working with us in our office. He will be prosecuted but no date has been decided.
The 16 people still in prison here are having a hard time since they are under restrictions. Five are from other countries, one English, one Norwegian/Italian and three Germans. The group of 8 Swedes are rather young and are getting tired of the imprisonment. Most people claims that they have been treated well by the prison guard. A few have been beaten by the the police in prison but most haven´t. The biggest problem has been with food since most people has been vegetarians or vegans and the guard didn´t have anyone to cook for them until the second week. Vistors are mostly not aloud if they aren´t relatives but this is normal in Sweden. It takes a letter a week to be delivered but most letters will get to them. They can also send letters to people on the outside so you can send them your adress if you write to them. Remember, the police reads the letters so don´t write anything stupid.
Allot of people are complaining to the government and police about the treatment they have received during the EU-meeting and we included the address to the different places to send your complain. The address to the solidaritygroup is also in this letter. We bring the prisoners letters, money, papers, books and small stuff almost everyday and if you want you can send us post and we will distribute it to the prisoner. We are also raising money for legalwork and if you want to send us money to number is also here.
This solidaritygroup was hastily put together before the EU-meeting and was then only two people but during the weekend of riots four more people joined the group. Since then some people has left the group and others have joined. Most of us has been working with this for the last two month and will still keep working as long we have friends in jail. There is also solidaritygroups in Malmoe and Stockholm that are working with us. The solidaritygroup has decided not the speak with the press for the reason that we are not an informationdesk nore will we give political speeches, other people likes this more then us so we let them do it.
Today the police informed that no investigations has started against the police.
There are no policemen who have the time to work with the case for the moment.
Please let them know what you think of this.
Address to the prisoners:
(name of the prisoner)
Box 216
401 23 Gothenburg
SWEDEN
address to the solidaritygroup:
Solidaritygroup GBG
c/o Syndikalistiskt Forum
Box 7267
402 35 Gothenburg
SWEDEN
Phone: 0046 733 16 42 96
If you want to send us money this is how you do it:
At a bank you tell them that you want to send the money to a Swedish postgiro.
The number is pg 27602-2 and the name of the account is "Nisse Latts minnesfond".
The sedish bank adress is;
Postgirotbank
SE 105 06 Stockholm
you also need a SWIFT code and that one is: pgsi sess
Send your complains to the Swedish goverment (this is the best way):
http://www.utrikes.regeringen.se/inenglish/missions/index.htm
to send you complain to the police:
Polismyndigheten i Vastra Gotaland
Box 429
401 26 Gothenburg
SWEDEN
From Jyrki Lappalainen <bozo@kaapeli.fi>
Paul Robinson
KVA Karlskoga
Box 7
69121 Karlskoga
Sweden
Paul was found been guilty and sentenced to a year in prison. He is appealing.
Free Artem Chlenov!
Artem Chlenov is a 32 year old ecologist from the city of Kasimov, member of
Rainbow Keepers movement and International Socio-Ecological Union, imprisoned
in the Swedish city of Gothenburg after protest actions against summit of European
Union organized from 15th to 17th of June 2001. He is accuse of throwing a stone
against a policeman - a crime which no-one saw him committing. Artem is known
to be a peace-loving man who has never used any aggression.
What people saw instead was the extreme violence to which Swedish state turned
in order to stop protests of groups like trade unions and environmental groups
concerned of European Union's course of development to a new neo-liberal militaristic
superstate. Most extreme action of police was shooting of a "Reclaim the
city" carnival in the evening of Friday 15th of June. Three persons were
wounded, one critically and it is still unknown will he survive or not. However
this was only a peak of the violence during the week, which has led Swedish
human rights and other concerned organizations to raise 20 complaints against
violent behavior of the police. Series of police provocations started 14th of
June when Swedish police surrounded Hvitfeldtska secondary housing peaceful
protesters school with containers, armed with police horses, dogs and a helicopter.
Police attacked people with horses and dogs, at least one demonstrator was bitten
to face by a police dog.
During actions of the weekend, police continuously escalated violence by attacking
demonstrators with dogs and horses unprovoked. Some non-uniformed police provocateurs
destroyed private property in order to discredit demonstrators.
In Saturday 16th of June a group of masked police armed with submachineguns
invaded another school in which people were staying, claiming to search "arms
and terrorists" which they never found. Some demonstrators did involved
themselves in fighting with police, but vast majority of the demonstrators were
calm even when police behavior was endangering their lives. 25000 persons from
all around the West and East-Europe came to Gothenburg to demonstrate against
imperialistic and unequal policies of the European union. One target of the
demonstrations was American president George Bush JR visiting Gothenburg, which
has lately scrapped both Kyoto protocol against global warming and anti-ballistic
missile treaty of 1972, declaring both a new cold war and a war against global
environment.
Officials of the European Union are ready to go to the very extreme in order
to create a new global superpower. Sweden, mostly known as an example of social
peace, has adopted brutal strategies seen only in South after fall of the iron
curtain. We, friends of Artem Chlenov call us to react to attack against of
human rights in the European Union. We call to organize actions demanding freedom
to Artem Chlenov and all other 40 persons arrested in Gothenburg in 1st of July
all around CIS, in front of the Swedish consulates, and Swedish companies, such
as IKEA. In Moscow, we will organize action 12.00 in Swedish embassy, Mosfilmovskaya
street 60. Please also write to Swedish embassy, and demand freedom to Artem
and stopping violence against protests of the people.
More information about campaign:
kuzja@ecoline.ru
P.O. Box 13
109 028 Moscow Russia
Currently Rainbow Keepers and Autonomous Action of Moscow
participate to campaign. If you want to join campaign, write us!