Information from the Court of Appeal about the 5 arrested students.
After the attendance of the prosecutor and the examination of their potential custody, the 5 arrested students were released, under restrictive conditions. This includes their presence 3 days per week in a police department and the prohibition of exiting the country until the court of appeal decides whether they will be send or not to the Italian authorities. This decision will be determined within the next 10 to 20 days.
As mentioned in a previous press release:
Since the morning of 12th November a serial of repression, that our country has never seen before, is taking place. In the early hours of the morning, on a day of a country-wide strike, Greek police forces invaded the houses of five university students. The citizens, all living in Agia Paraskevi, a suburb of Athens, were arrested under the issue of a warrant by the Italian authorities demanding their extradition. The event is unbelievable taking under consideration the only prior event was their random addiction at a cafeteria in Milan in 2/5, a day after the first May strike!
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This prosecution procedure on university students from another EU country, using a European arrest warrant, in the causation of their participation to the 1st May strike protest, is an unprecedented event. The prevention of this extreme repressive method concerns the defense of every human’s right to participate in political gatherings.
Today, on Friday 13/11 outside the Athens Court of Appeal building hundreds of people gathered in order to demand the non-custody and non-transfer of the 5 students as well as the immediate stop of every prosecution against them.
The non-custody of the 5 students was a first win but the struggle until the final acquittal of our comrades continues.
We fight for the non-transfer of the 5 student in the Italian authorities, which it will be determined by the Court of Appeal within the next 10 to 20 days.
We call for an assembly on Friday 13/11 at the University of Economics and Business “ASOEE” at 18:00.
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Evening Solidarity March for the 5 arrested in Agia Paraskevi, Athens,Greece
At Thursday 12 November (day of national general strike) in the evening, after the public assembly of 100 people at the town hall’s occupation, a march occurred -with the protesters distributing leaflets and chanting slogans- from the occupied town hall to the borough’s central commercial area at Agiou Ioannou Street, and finally to the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation -where the protesters delivered an announcement- and then the march returned to the town hall. At the town hall’s occupation assembly the parents of the 5 arrested people, other relatives and a lawyer, informed the participators about the issue and a discussion was raised about solidarity actions.
The solidarity actions continue today with the rally outside of the Court of Appeal at Loukareos Street – where the 5 arrested are presented right now in front of the Prosecutor- and the evening public assembly at the University of Economics and Business “ASOEE” at 18:00.
Immediate release, no prosecution, no custody, no extradition of the 5 arrested.
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Press release for the arrest of five university students, citizens of Agia Paraskevi, Athens, with European arrest warrant
http://anoixtisyneleysiagparaskevis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/press-release-for-arrest-of-five.html
Since the morning of 12th November a serial of repression, that our country has never seen before, is taking place. In the early hours of the morning, on a day of a country-wide strike, Greek police forces invaded the houses of five university students. The citizens, all living in Agia Paraskevi, a suburb of Athens, were arrested under the issue of a warrant by the Italian authorities demanding their extradition. The event is unbelievable taking under consideration the only prior event was their random addiction at a cafeteria in Milan in 2/5, a day after the first May strike!
This prosecution procedure on university students from another EU country, using a European arrest warrant, in the causation of their participation to the 1st May strike protest, is an unprecedented event. The prevention of this extreme repressive method concerns the defense of every human’s right to participate in political gatherings.
Early this morning we, politically active citizens of this town including neighbors, friends and relatives of the arrested, gathered in the Agia Paraskevi city hall, demanding the end of any prosecution and custodial, as well as their non-extradition, in any occasion, in Italy.
Open assembly of citizens of Agia Paraskevi
http://anoixtisyneleysiagparaskevis.blogspot.co.uk/
& Neighbors, Friends, Relatives
http://anoixtisyneleysiagparaskevis.blogspot.co.uk/
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