A-Infos (en) Russia, 2008 May 24 - Demonstration* to voice opposition to imprisonment of Russian Anti-Fascist Aleksey Olesinov

As some of you may know Aleksey "Shkobar" Olesinov has been convicted of "hooliganism" 
(for allegedly fighting with the night club guard) and sentenced to 1 year in prison on 
April 21 in Tagan court in Moscow, Russia. Aleksey is an active antifascist, his 
conviction is a total farce, the state could not produce a single person who had any 
damages as a result of this "hooliganism". ---- Originally Stanislav Markelov was a lawyer 
representing Aleksey in court. Markelov did warn that soon all the political movements 
which do not explicitly ally themselves with the state apparatus will feel the wrath of 
the state. In January 19 this year Markelov was killed in the centre of Moscow. After the 
sentencing the (peaceful) demonstrations of antifascists were violently stopped by the 
police, and later lies were spread about "smashing store windows".

Russian state gets away with this because they are able to repress
the people within Russia, and there is very little outcry from the
international public (it is often more popular to attack USA and other Western
powers). It is essential to show the support with the antifascist activists in
Russia to stop this trend.

Please show up near the Russian Federation Embassy
(http://www.great-britain.mid.ru/) at noon on May 24th (Sunday) to partake in
the "unplanned" peaceful demonstration against the state fascism by RF. The
embassy complex takes a few buildings, we'll decide where we're going to be on
the day.

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=w8+4qx&sll=54.7355,55.991982&sspn=0,359.972105&ie=UTF8&z=16
http://www.great-britain.mid.ru/vt.html
http://www.great-britain.mid.ru/vt_10.html

Actions in Moscow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwESsuRl0SM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-4-6xt158

Warning: Both actions were illegal. First was an unauthorised demo, and the
second one is along the lines of 'extracting the cost of imprisonment from the
state' as Ward Churchill puts it.

http://piter.indymedia.org/node/5573 (pre-sentencing in english)
http://ru.indymedia.org/feature/display/13332/index.php (in russian)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/428400.html









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