On September 4, in Belgrade, anarchosyndicalists Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrovic, activists of ASI, were arrested, accused of the attack with molotovs against the greek embassy on August 25. The Serbian police is after one more comrade who is also accused of participating in the same action. The comrades were “kidnapped” by the cops from their houses, interrogated and detained since the prosecutor decided that they will remain in custody for at least 30 days. He also demanded that they are charged with “international terrorism”, an accusation which means that if convicted they will be facing many years in prison .

Their arrest and custody is completely arbitrary since there is no evident linking them to the specific action and all five of them deny the charges.

The attack against the greek embassy in Belgrade was one of the numerous actions of solidarity that took place during the hunger strike of Thodoris Iliopoulos, the last prisoner from the December revolt in Greece; actions that were the continuation of all those last winter’s mobilizations and direct actions of counter-information and solidarity around the world which had been triggered by the insurrectionary events of December.

The persecution of the five anarchosyndicalists who are well-known to the authorities for their ideas and their social anarchist activity, is an attempt by the Serbian state to intimidate those who struggle for social liberation. After all, it is a common method of the repressive mechanisms to target activists and frame them up with false accusations in order to achieve exhaustive prison sentences.

We stand in solidarity with the five comrades in Serbia who are held hostages by the state, and with all activists facing state violence. The global struggle for social liberation will sweep away the states and the bosses, their institutions and their repressive mechanisms.

FREE THE FIVE ANARCHOSYNDICALISTS IN SERBIA

THE STATE IS THE ONLY TERRORIST

Anarchist collective “the Circle of Fire”

Athens, September 16 2009

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