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blake 3:17
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posted 14 July 2006 08:55 PM      Profile for blake 3:17     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Russia clamps down on dissent ahead of G8

· Protester claims 200 held as Bush and Putin meet
· Demonstrations expected today in St Petersburg

Nick Paton Walsh in St Petersburg
Saturday July 15, 2006
The Guardian


Dozens of activists have been arrested on their way to protest at the G8 summit in St Petersburg this weekend, as Russia seeks to clamp down on dissent ahead of the meeting.
A spokesman for Network against the G8 - a group organising demonstrations expected today amid tight security in the city centre - who gave his name as Maxim, said 86 people had been taken off trains on their way to St Petersburg in the past few days. He added that a further eight people had been sentenced to short term custodial sentences, and that a further 30 had been fingerprinted and then released.


Full story.


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posted 14 July 2006 09:23 PM      Profile for a lonely worker     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's pathetic to see that our ambassador and the other imperialist nations take the time to meet with fascists opposed to Putin because "they want to hear all points of view in Russian society." But refuse to meet with true activists opposed to the neo-liberal agenda. Then the activists are further persecuted because they contain "some radical elements". What can be more bleeding radical than skin head fascists who routinely kill people in Moscow merely because of the colour of their skin? Yet Canadian, American and British representatives had no problems meeting with them. The silence of this hypocrisy is deafening.

We really are entering a dark period in our collective history as a species with these greed obsessed psychopaths running the show.


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