Dear colleagues, from the Trades Union Several of the 
National Labor
Confederation (CNT-AIT) of Jaen we have launched a campaign to 
collect
digital signatures to demand the release of the companions of 
the ASI-AIT repressed by the Serbian state . 

 For this reason we leave the link in which you can see the site 
created, and other addresses where they are advertising: 

 http://jaen.cnt.es/ 
 --------> http://jaen.cnt.es/index.php?page=firmar to sign 

 Published in: 

  http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=40005
 http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/libertad-para-detenidos-asi-ait
 http://cntjaen.bitacoras.com/archivos/2009/09/10/libertad-para-los-detenidos-de-la-asi-ait 

So, hopefully pick up the maximum number of signatures as 
possible and thus to support fellow Curbing the Serbian fascist state.
 Between them get freedom. Our embrace of solidarity for all. 

 A libertarian embrace 

 David O.
 Secretary for Labor Action

On Saturday, Sept. 4, five political activists were arrested in Belgrade on trumped up charges of ‘international terrorism.’

The five, Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrovic, are activists in or associates of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative, the Serbian section of the International Workers’ Association (IWA).

The arrests are allegedly related to a direct action which took place at the Greek Embassy on Aug. 25. Negligible damage was done; a crack in one window, a tiny burn mark on the facade and a circled-A graffiti on the embassy as a act of symbolic solidarity with Greek hunger-striker Thodoros Iliopoulos. The prosecutor however imagines this as an act of “international terrorism” and would like to charge our comrades with such. If the state allows such charges to be pressed, they could be facing 3-15 years in prison.

As it is, the five were arrested, harrassed and are to be held in custody for at least one month while the case is organized.

Although one of the accused, General Secretary of the IWA Ratibor Trivunac clearly and publically declared that he knew nothing of the action, he was arrested. It is not the first time that authorities have come after him or his comrades for no other reason than the fact that they are radical critics of the state.

There will be a picket of the London Embassy on Friday 11th, 12-2. Embassy is at 28 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QB, nearest stations Victoria, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Called by Solidarity Federation (the UK IWA section). Please bring banners, placards and black and red flags.

SolFed
– Homepage: http://www.solfed.org.uk

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437583.html

From ZSP

On Sept. 4, 5 anarchists were arrested in Belgrade. The five, Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrovic may even be charged with “international terrorism” if the prosecutor’s office has its way.

The arrests are related to a direct action at the Greek Embassy in Belgrade made on Aug. 25. The action was related to the hunger strike of Thodoros Iliopoulos. Although this action was a big sensation in the press, in fact, almost no real damage was done to the Embassy; two Molotov cocktails were thrown, but they did not break the window and only one managed to catch fire. If you look really hard at the left window on these photos, you can see the extent of the damage: http://cia.bzzz.net/tak_wyglada_terroryzm.

This type of symbolic attack on property is not “terrorism”.

From what we know, the police arrested a couple of people despite knowing their alibis but are trying to pin the action on them.

A sixth person is on the run. The police are trying to play mind-fucking games by telling other comrades of the arrested that they can be released if he gives himself up. They are also apparently releasing “selected information” to comrades and the press, some (or all) which may be false and only be part of police manipulation tactics.

The judge ordered the comrades to be detained at least 30 days to avoid a flight risk. During this time, the prosecutor will try to build his case. They are trying to get “international terrorism” charges pressed. This would carry a sentence of up to 15 years.

An international solidarity campaign is already started. On Monday there should be demos at embassies in a few European cities.

There is a web page setup where you can send letters to the government. Please help us to bomb their mailboxes TODAY. Let them arrive on Monday with an inbox full of protests.

http://www.anarchistnews.org/?q=node/9666

ASI statement read during a protest against the arrests and charges

On September 4th 2009 the District Court judge in Belgrade ordered a measure of thirty days’ detention to a group of six young people who were arrested on September 3rd. They are accused of writing graffiti on a wall and then throwing two Molotov cocktails at the Greek Embassy in Belgrade on August 25th, around 3 a.m.

The unusual circumstance concerning the actions of police and prosecutors in this case is that the arrested are charged with a criminal offence of international terrorism. In the criminal law of the Republic of Serbia this offence is treated within the same group as, for example, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against a civilian populace, organising and encouraging to commit genocide and war crimes, conducting an aggressive war, and similar.

Let us remember that the only person convicted for participation in last year’s burning of the American Embassy in Belgrade on February 21st was charged only with a serious act against public safety, despite the fact that the embassy was heavily damaged and one of the persons who was in the convicted’s group died in the fire.

In a moment when rights and liberties in Serbia are being seriously narrowed by changes in the criminal law and the law on public information, a decision to charge the six arrested with international terrorism shows the intent of some State structures to discourage any political critique against its actions by stepping up the repression and misusing and misinterpreting its own laws. Because of this we express our solidarity with the arrested, demand that the ridiculous charge be revoked and that they be immediately released.

Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative

[Statement edited for clarity by Anarkismo]