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Anarchist Arrested in Iceland;Soli Demo report

category international | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday November 25, 2008 20:49author by Nopasarambo

Solidarity Demo with arrested Anarchist attacks police station in Iceland

Solidarity Demo with arrested Anarchist attacks police station in Iceland

Last Friday, anarchist Haukur H. from Reykjavik, Iceland was arrested for 2 weeks for participation in environmental blockades in 2006. The pretext of his arrest wasn't the sentence for that protest though. Two weeks ago two anarchists climbed on the roof of the Icelandic parliament and took down the Icelandic flag and put up a flag of a discount supermarket Bonus. One of them was arrested on his way down, the other managed to escape after a spectacular action of people gathered around, they pushed the cops aside and made way for him to run away. On Friday, Haukur was visiting the building of the parliament (I guess as a part of his university classes), one of the MPs recognized him as the one who did the flag-busting (he was wearing a mask, but all the protesters in Iceland are well know by bastards since it is a very small country and Haukur is one of the most active anarchists there). He was arrested and put in jail for 2 weeks for the sentence he had for the protests in 2006. The thing is that he couldn't have been arrested without getting a letter from the cops three weeks in advance. It is clear that he was arrested to make it impossible for him to take part in further protests against the government which have been taking place every Saturday after huge financial collapse in Icelandic economy in early October 2008.

Last Saturday, some 200-500 people went to the police station in Reykjavik demanding the release of Haukur, the demonstration ended up in clashes, people broke windows of the police station, cops used tear gas.

Haukur was out on saturday after the clashes at the cop station, someone paid bail for him, still dont know if he has more charges.
Clashes last Saturday in front of Reykjavik main police station: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7744355.stm

here'sand video of his release:
http://skodun.blog.is/blog/skodun/entry/721375

an article about the events,
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandrev ... _id=315847

Flag busting 10 Nov. (photos and video): http://aftaka.org/2008/11/08/anrakistar-althingi-bonus/

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89987

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