Saturday, July 13 - 3:00 pm Große Bergstraße in Altona (near Ikea) Hamburg, Germany More information
On July 22, Palestinian writer and activist Khaled Barakat received a political ban from the Berlin immigration authorities forbidding him from appearing at political events and a threat that his residence permit would not be extended. The latter was confirmed in the meantime, he received a request to leave Germany within a time limit. The FRG is trying to punish and stop his commitment to the freedom of Palestine and the BDS campaign and to intimidate other activists.
Not one week later, on 26 June, the cops entered the homes of nine members of the former Jugendwiderstand organization, searched them and seized computers and cell phones, among other things. The reasons given were: an attack on participants of the fascist Rudolf Hess commemoration march in 2017 and arguments with anti-Germans who tried to disrupt an event with Manal Tamimi. It seeks to criminalize anti-fascism and, as in the case Khaled Barakat, the support of the Palestinian liberation movement. It also intends to pressure youth activists and spy on them (by confiscating cell phones and computers).
One day later, Erdal Gökoglu was sentenced to five years in prison for alleged DHKP-C membership. It was a show trial, in which the verdict was already fixed in advance and which served only to intimidate, delegitimize and defame the resistance. There were no specific crimes, and yet the Senate went beyond the demands of the prosecutor for more than a year – after two years of isolation torture and denial of decent medical treatment in custody.
These are but a few examples of such repression that take place massively whenever German imperialism sees its interests threatened. We continue to fight and show solidarity. Whether house searches, political bans or political trials and detention: individuals are hit directly – but they target all of us who offer political resistance!
Solidarity beats repression – come to the rally on July 13!
Raise up international solidarity!
No pasarán!
