[p2p-research] Fwd: Petition against police violence to migrants and activists in Greece

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: akis gavriilidis <cr33396 at telenet.be>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM
Subject: Petition against police violence to migrants and activists in
Greece


Feel free to sign and/or diffuse further on

Twitter petition  http://act.ly/pq

Sign here http://www.petitiononline.com/nomadic1/petition.html


To:  The Greek Minister of Citizen Protection

Following the December revolts in Greece, police violence against
migrants and activists in Greece is becoming more and more intense. The
xenophobic turn of the mainstream media combined with the electoral rise
of the extreme right wing party LAOS have played a vital role in
legitimizing police violence against both foreigners and citizens who
dare to protest. Ironically these tactics are part of an overall plan to
"protect the citizen" by openly demonstrating the ability of the state
to control those who participated in the December revolts. While “scoop”
operations and deportations take place daily all over the country
subjecting migrants to different forms of physical and psychological
violence, activists who react against it are also becoming subject to
the arbitrary violent and terrorizing tactics of the police. Recently
Mohamed Kamran Atif, a migrant from Pakistan, has died after being
tortured in detention at the police station of Nikaia. During the
protest march organized in response, several activists were arrested and
imprisoned. Few days later Dimitris Parsanoglou, a sociologist and
anti-racist activist, has been arrested and detained without a legal
representative for three days because he protested against the arbitrary
arrest and beating by the police of a migrant in a central spot of Athens.

We ask from the Greek government to

- stop police violence against migrants and activists
- stop “scoop” operations and arbitrary deportations of migrants
- stop arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of activists of all nationalities





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