(source: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447849.html )
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On Saturday, Sept. 4 2009, five* political activists were arrested in
Belgrade on trumped up charges. The five, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulovi?,
Sanja Dojki?, 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 sixth person
sought by police, Ivan Savic, was also arrested some days later.)
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 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 of the time of the interview, no charges
have been pressed against the comrades. Members of ASI have clearly and
publically declared that they knew nothing of the action, which was
claimed by a group nobody has heard of, Crni Ilja.
It is quite clear that the main reason the activists from ASI have been arrested is political.
Since
the arrest of the comrades, protests have taken play in many parts of
the world. Thousands of people have sent letters of protest to the
Serbian government. Everybody is united in demanding their release.
The
following audio file is an interview with Ratibor Trivunac, discussing
the growth of an international Belgrade 6 solidarity campaign while
also highlighting some of the problems that arise when attracting the
support and attention of a diverse number of politically liberal
leftists. He goes on to give an interesting analysis of fascism in
Serbia, as well as looking at the grassroots movements.
