repression
Articles about state or employers repression and legal, police, military or paramilitary intimidation or violence against workers or social movements.
Reporter kidnapped and tortured in Oaxaca
In the increasingly tense climate of repression against the social movement which has been escalating these past couple of weeks, a journalist from the Noticias newspaper was abducted by security forces.
By Scott Campbell
Pedro Matias, a well-known reporter who writes for Noticias, a local daily paper, as well as the national weekly Proceso, was kidnapped, beaten, tortured and robbed on Saturday night in Oaxaca. Reporters Without Borders states that,
Thousands march in Athens for asylum seeker killed by police
Thousands march in Athens following the coffin of Pakistani asylum seeker killed by the riot police in a wanton attack against immigrants queuing for asylum papers.
In the evening of the 27th of October thousands marched in the center of Athens in protest at the killing of a Pakistani asylum seeker in the hands of the police.
In the early morning of Sunday the 26th, riot police charged immigrants queuing outside the central immigration office of Athens waiting to register for asylum status.
Occupied schools in Greece face repression
As the tide of secondary and high-school squats rises again across Greece, the state responds with repression
More than 300 secondary and high schools (that is 1/6 of the national total) around Greece are currently occupied by their pupils who are demanding the reversal of several articles of the conservative educational reform that caused widespead revolt by students and university staff during the academic years of 2005-2006-2007.
Gurgaon Workers News No.13 - October 2008
Wildcat strikes and repression in the Special Economic Zone of Gurgaon.
Gurgaon Workers News - Newsletter 13 (October 2008)
Arrests of Korean trade unionists continue
Following a wave of strikes, the South Korean government has unleashed a massive attack against the Korean Metal Workers' Union targeting more than 75 of the union's key leaders for arrest or investigation.
With the recent arrest of Hyundai Motor Branch First Vice-President Kim Tae-gon on September 16 and the arraignment of Jung Gab-deuk, president of the Korean Metal Workers' Union (KMWU), on September 18 on charges of obstructing business, members of the KMWU are bracing for more assaults. Leaders of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions have also been targets of arrest.
South Korean government steps up conflict with candlelight demonstrators
150 South Korean protesters and bystanders have been rounded up by riot police.
Riot police in Seoul have stepped up their repression of the "candlelight demonstrations" in Korea, arresting around 150 people after a demonstration on August 15th. Police used water cannons filled with dye on the protestors, and used dye stains as a pretext for arrests.
Anti-labour witchhunt in Iran continues
Harsh sentences have been thrown at labour activists in Iran following recent class struggle and repression.
Several labour and union militants have received punitive sentances following on a wave of repression in Iran through 2007 and 2008. In full:
Seyed Qaleb Hosseini, sentenced to 50 lashes and 6 months in prison
Abdullah Khani, sentenced to 40 lashes and 91 days in prison
Khaled Hosseini, sentenced to 30 lashes and a suspended prison sentence
Locals attack police station after renewed repression of open refuse-dump related protests in south Corfu
The 3 month long protest against an open refuse-dump in south Corfu escalates to violent attack against police station after yet another repression of local protests. 2 men, including the village priest are held for subversion and rebellion.
On Saturday 9/08 the peacefull protests by residents of Lefkimi against the creation of an open refuse-dump at the periphery of their village were once again met with police repression: the riot-police made extened use of tear gas and disregarded home-asylum laws by attacking residents with battons within their very backyards.
Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners jailed for a year
On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders at Delft-Symphony Way settlement.
The movement, and other militant movements in South Africa considers Daniels and Isaacs to be political prisoners and is mobilising support on this basis.
Striking tube cleaners intimidated
Tube cleaners’ union RMT has demanded an end to “appalling intimidation“ of members involved in a 48-hour strike for a living wage on, one on July 1st-3rd. Tube cleaners also engaged in a 24-hour strike on June 25th-26th.
The union is gathering evidence that cleaners have been bullied, harassed and threatened with the sack and with illegal punitive deductions from their wages if they take strike action.
