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Announcement :: Civil and Human Rights・市民権・人権 : Media・メディア : Protests,Vigils・デモ,プロテスト,ビジル

Protest statement aginst J5 police suppression / 7・5弾圧抗議声明

news! *Finally decided not to prosecute on 14th Aug. reported on 18th after more than one month.*

one of the arrested is ALSO an indymedia activist, PROTEST!

2008/07/08(火) 14:28
Though the peacewalk was permitted to include sound demonstration where some people get on the loading platform of the track for manipulating sound systems, four people were arrested in the situation where riot police and secret officers were mixed up a for attack in the demonstration.
Challenge the G8 Summit, Peacewalk of 10,000 was done in Sapporo City on July 5. Various people participated in the rally held in Odori Park, and the walk became large-scale to reach 5,000 people eventually.

However, police charged the sound demonstration in the peacewalk where people gather with music thrown from the loading platform of a track build up with sound systems with extraordinary suppression. Though the peacewalk was permitted to include sound demonstration where some people get on the loading platform of the track for manipulating sound systems, four people were arrested in the situation where riot police and secret officers were mixed up a for attack in the demonstration.

This suppression that concentrated on sound demonstration done within the range of the permitted demonstration application is caused by the police violence on charge of “Violation of the Road Traffic Law”, “Violation of the Sapporo City demonstration ordinance”, and “crime of obstructing the performance of official duty”. The arrested are just DJs playing or driving the track, so they have no reason to be arrested. The Reuter camera person was accused of kicking the police, but media related personnel, one of eyewitnesses, deny it.

The exerciser of overwhelming violence is the police. For instance, they stopped the track forcely, broke the window with policeman’s club etc, and dragged out the driver while hanging him. This situation was exposed as Japanese police brutality again, through the report of independent media. We denounce suppression to the sound demonstration by the police, and demand such immediate releasing of all.



7月5日、札幌市で「チャレンジ・ザG8サミット 1万人のピースウォーク」が行われました。大通公園で開催された集会に多様な人々が参加し、ウォークは最終的に5千人に及ぶ大規模なものとなりました。

しかしウォーク中、音響機材を荷台に積んだトラックから音楽を流して歩くサウンドデモに対して、異様な警備体制がしかれました。札幌市公安条例に準拠して行われたピースウォークは、形態として音響機材操作のための荷台乗車も許可されたものでしたが、機動隊・公安警察が入り乱れる状況のなかで、4人の人たちが逮捕されました。

警察がいう被疑事実は「道路交通法違反」「札幌市公安条例違反」「公務執行妨害」ですが、許可されたデモ申請の範囲内で行われていた「サウンドデモ」部分に集中したこの弾圧は、警察の暴力によって引き起こされたものです。かれらはDJをしたり、トラックを運転していただけで、逮捕されるべき理由はまったくありません。逮捕者に含まれるロイター通信のカメラマンにしても警察は「蹴った」としていますが、そばにいたメディア関係者はそれを否定しています。

圧倒的な暴力を行使し続けたのは警察の方であって、たとえば、いきなりトラックを止めて窓ガラスを警棒などで叩き割り、首をしめながら運転手を引きずり出していく様子などは、独立メディアの報道を通じて、改めて日本の「警察の横暴性(police brutality)」がとして世界的に露呈する事態となりました。

私たちは、こうした警察によるサウンドデモへの弾圧を糾弾し、一刻も早い全員の釈放を要求します。

7月8日
札幌サウンドデモ7・5救援会

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