Three comrades who had been jailed since July 5th were released at 9:30 (GMT+9) this morning (16th) !
Their period of detention was shorter than 23 days, the common length in the police state Japan. We believe that it was thanks to your attention and solidarity from the world over.
From now on, we will demand compensation for the destroyed truck and continue to protest against the unlawful crackdowns before and after the G8. Please keep an eye on coming events.
In Solidarity

* they were released not cleary without indictment but suspended(?) actually with empty reason. Unjustful again.

SAPPORO: 3pm at Oodori Park Nishi-3
TOKYO: 5pm at Kouenji Central Park
OSAKA: 3pm at Osaka Station Central Exit
KYOTO: 6pm at 3-Jou Oohashi Bridge
FUKUOKA: 7:30pm at Tenjincore or Kego Park

NEW! action reports:
[SAPPORO] [MANILA, en] [TOKYO: Kouenji(vid), Shibuya] [KYOTO] [OSAKA] [FUKUOKA] [BERLIN, vid] [SAN FRANCISCO] [SEOUL]

watch a video recorded on 5th July:
rootless.org/noG8/Declare_Independence.m4v

3 of our friends unjustly arrested at the demonstration against G8 summit on 5th July in Sapporo. One of the arrested is actually an indymedia activist who is organizing sound actions and a member of G8 Media Network which is organized by non-profit and non-govermental various grassroots media. The exerciser of overwhelming violence was 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, reported by independent media.

While most of Japanese media coverage focusing around the summit, one of homeless activists in Osaka had quietly, unfairly arrested on 4th. Alleged that his mobile phone ownership and user was different in name. Even though his group from Osaka had been planned to come and join the poverty & labour unit of couter G8 Action Network but they cannot in order to resucue him just after the liberation of another one who was also arrested by tiny bureaucratic mistake last month. All of them are unreasonably trivial things. Suppression of dissent, obviously.

We denounce suppression to the sound demonstration and homeless activists by the police, and demand immediate releasing of all. On 12th July, simultaneous protest actions will be taken 3pm in Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, etc. against police capitalism. Call for international solidarity! Take actions simultaneously! Protest against unjust arrests, police violence and capitalist summit.

July5th Relief Association for Sapporo Sound Demonstration
in solidarity with indymedia japan.

j5solidarity (at) riseup.net
j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/

tv.g8medianetwork.org/
japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4602/
japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4604/