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DOWN WITH PARAGRAPH 129, 129A and 129B StGB! (Second Part)

This article is also available in German.

These examples alone show impressively that the persecution of democrats, socialists and communists continued seamlessly in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), but under democratic cover.

The persecution in the Nazi Reich was made more precise by the 1st Criminal Law Amendment Act in the FRG, so that a Gesinnungsparagraph [translator’s note: an attitude-based law, in contrast with the common act-based criminal law] was created, in which the objective investigation of punishable facts was increasingly pushed into the background. Between 1954 and 1962, at least 85 people were imprisoned for political reasons. Since then, there have always been political prisoners in Germany’s prisons. Today, a total of 20 political prisoners are in prison.

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Emir Karakum is on 96th day of Hunger Strike against Poor Treatment in Prison!

Emir Karakum, a revolutionary prisoner is on hunger strike for 96th day against poor treatment in prison. He has been imprisoned for 10 months on the false testimony of anonymous witnesses.  After his detention on December 3 2021, during İstanbul-based police raids, he was arrested at the Samsun Courthouse on December 6 2021 and was taken to the Samsun Type-T Prison. After starting a hunger strike there, he was transferred to the Bafra Type-T Prison. He was arrested for fighting for free, scientific and democratic education and for demanding justice. For 10 months he has been held in a solitary confinement cell in Bafra T Type prison. Every day he is subjected to psychological and physical violence by the prison guards. Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ says “there is no torture in prisons”, yet there is footage of Emir Karakum being tortured.

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DOWN WITH PARAGRAPH 129, 129A and 129B StGB! (First Part)

This article is also available in German.

On May 16, the anti-fascist Özgül Emre was arrested at the main train station in Heidelberg. The following evening, the two antifascists Serkan Küpeli and Ihsan Cibelik were also arrested in their apartments in Hamburg and Bochum. All of them are from Turkey. Ihsan Cibelik is known as one of the founding members of the revolutionary, anti-fascist music band Grup Yorum, which is one of the most popular political music groups in the world and regularly faces repression in Turkey as well as in Germany.

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Rally on 01.07.2022 – Solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike – Down with the paragraphs 129, 129a and 129b!

Rally – Solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike – Away with the paragraphs 129, 129a and 129b!
We will be in streets, demanding justice for Özgül Emre in front of Federal Ministry of Justice
in front of the entrance Jerusalemer Straße 27, 10117 Berlin
near U-Bhf Stadtmitte/ Hausvogteiplatz
Berlin
1 July 2022 19:00

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Discussion Event: Long Live Our Death Fast Resistance!

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Yaşasın Ölüm Orucu Direnişimiz! (Long live our death fast resistance!)

Sunday, June 12 2022 at 4 pm, NewYorck at Bethanien

Discussion event: Death fast resistance as a means of political struggle “Our death fast resistance is the strongest form of expression of the struggle about independence and freedoms. And it will last…”

Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yıldırım who are imprisoned in Turkish jails, have been on hunger strike since December 2021, which they have now converted into a death fast. Another revolutionary prisoner, Özgür Karakaya, has been on a hunger strike for 43 days against the usurpation of his right to bail. Özgül Emre, who is imprisoned in German jails, has been on indefinite hunger strike to protest the wearing of prison uniforms. In a hunger strike, one does not eat anything beside sugar and b12 supplements. In the case of death fast resistance, which means indefinite hunger strike, either the demands of one will be met, or the person will die from malnutrition. In political terms, death fast means: either justice or death!

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Freedom for Academician Nuriye Gülmen!

“We should be the ones who stare at the light, and to show the light to others. If we can not do anything, at least we should be a candle.”

Nuriye Gülmen was a research assistant at Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey. She is just one of the 7,915 university lecturers/workers who were fired from their jobs overnight by a decree-law issued under the state of emergency declared on 21 July 2016 by the fascist AKP government.

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Anti-Imperialist Struggle Committee Bulletin No. 11 – Free Özgül Emre, İhsan Cibelik and Serkan Küpeli!

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On 16th of May 2022,  Revolutionary Journalist Özgül Emre was abducted by German police in Mannheim on daylight. Next day, police raided the house of İhsan Cibelik, a member of the revolutionary music band Grup Yorum. He was forcibly detained resulting in bruises and abrasions on his body. Both of them are taken to respective courts and in a fraction of second these courts decided on the arrest of them. Özgül Emre was taken to JVA Rohrbach prison and İhsan Cibelik was taken to JVA Köln-Ossendorf. Today another anti-fascist, Serkan Küpeli, was detained in Hamburg. Continue reading “Anti-Imperialist Struggle Committee Bulletin No. 11 – Free Özgül Emre, İhsan Cibelik and Serkan Küpeli!”

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Anti-Imperialist Struggle Committee Bulletin No. 10 – Repression of Nakba Day in Berlin

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ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE COMMITTEE BULLETIN No. 10

On the 74th anniversary of Nakba (Disaster/Catastrophe) day, Palestinians all over the World demanded justice against Zionist regime and its imperialist collaborators. Also in Berlin, every year, this day is commemorated by thousands, and people from all nationalities show their solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance against colonialism and imperialism.

But this year there was a catch; the police in Berlin banned all public commemorations of Nakba. This blatant attack on the freedom of speech and assembly came with an unprecedented insult to Palestinian identity itself; all of the public display of Palestinian flags and symbols like Keffiyeh were banned! This unacceptable and racist policies have to be challenged.

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