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  • G8 summit police lied, says report
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Summers
    The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
    The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
    Ninety-two (…)

  • Brutality trials start for top Italian police
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    · G8 protesters claim they were gassed and beaten · New laws could render convictions meaningless
    in Rome
    Seventy-five people, including some of Italy’s most senior police officers, go on trial in the next two days, accused of taking part in an orgy of brutality against protesters during and after the demonstrations at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
    Court papers seen by the Guardian show that one police witness gave a written statement describing his colleagues "beating young people (…)

  • Trial forces Italy to relive shocking police brutality
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Popham in Rome
    Italy is about relive two of its most shocking episodes of alleged police brutality as the trial of officers accused of illegal behaviour over attacks on anti- globalisation protesters proceed in Genoa.
    The attacks occurred as the G8 summit of July 2001 in the port city was winding down after days of peaceful mass demonstrations by 200,000 people from all over the world, and violently anarchic protests by a small group known as the Black Block.
    Today the trial (…)

  • Italy G8 ’brutality’ trial opens
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    See footage of the violent clashes between protestors and police
    Forty-five Italian police and medical staff have gone on trial accused of brutality against protesters arrested during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
    The case, which opened at a court in Genoa, was adjourned until November.
    The defendants - which include senior officers from Genoa - deny the charges, including unlawful violence.
    On Friday, in a related case, 28 officers are due appear in court over a raid at a school (…)

  • Where’s Bob?
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that we know that every line that left the lips of those at the G8 at Gleneagles was a lie and that the words "Mission accomplished, frankly" uttered by Bob Geldof were nothing short of a disgrace - is it not time for Mr Geldof to come down from his cloud and tell us the truth?
    Let’s face it, Saint Bob was quick enough to hijack the long term efforts of a wide range of organisations devoted for years and decades to the cause of the poor. He suddenly crawled from the woodwork on planet (…)

  • G8 arrests - call out for info & witnesses
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July.
    If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on...
    G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED
    At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set length of time. (…)

  • Italy sets date to pull troops out of Iraq. Speculation over terror fears as 300 to leave in September
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Hooper in Rome
    Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday confirmed that he would start pulling his country’s troops out of Iraq within two months.
    Speaking at the G8 Gleneagles summit, Mr Berlusconi said the withdrawal of the first of Italy’s 3,000 troops would start in September.
    "We will begin withdrawing 300 men in September," he said, adding that the decision would depend on the security situation on the ground.
    He said he had discussed the plan with allies and (…)

  • The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities
    by Robin Cook
    I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear of the London bombings. A forum that often is raucous and rowdy was solemn and grave. A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in shock and sorrow. Even Ian Paisley made a humane plea to the press not to repeat the offence that occurred in Northern Ireland when (…)

  • The ghost at Gleneagles
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib. By John Pilger
    Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers and watching television in Britain, you (…)

  • Scotland all out for G8 security
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 6 (Xinhuanet) — The streets of Edinburgh looked quite normal on Wednesday except a heavy presence of police and some boarded up shop windows in downtown areas. With the fast-approaching Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleneagles some70 kilometers way from the Scottish capital, Scotland is all drummed up to ensure a safe summit.
    On Monday, violent clashes took place on a high street of Edinburgh when over 1,000 anarchists and members of the so-called Carnival for (…)