South Africa Attacks Own Citizens To Defend Peres

Palestinian Solidarity arrested at protest against Shimon Peres address
About 100 demonstrators against the address by Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, have been prevented from entering the Johannesburg College of Education and are now surrounded by police at the venue of the Zionist platform. Water cannon was earlier used against the first Palestinian solidarity contingent to arrive on the scene. Security forces have baton charged the protestors and used pepper spray to try disperse the crowd. Support for the demonstrators is being rallied and are en route to the campus. Zionist repression is being visited upon Palestinian solidarity action in South Africa.

Earlier today, Naboth Nabata, an IMC photographer, was arrested at Nasrec - the venue for the Global People's Forum. He was assaulted by the police, who used their helmets to beat him up. While detained in the police station at Nasrec, other IMC journalists heard screaming emanating from the holding cell, implying some kind of brutality inflicted on the detained. Ironically, he was charged with police assault, and is due to appear in court tomorrow morning.

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Repression at Hillbrow Police Station - Pictures
by Indymedia SA • Monday September 02, 2002 at 05:06 PM

Pictures from the vicious police repression at Hillbrow police station

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At approximately 20:30 of Monday 2 September the South African police has brutally attacked a demonstration outside the Hillbrow police station to protest again the violent charges at the JCE few hours earlier. at least 25 people have been arrested and an unclarified number was hospitalised. The police of the Fascist regime of the African National Congress has used rubber bullets, teargas and water cannons, savagely pursuing and beating demonstrators down the streets of Hillbrow.

THE MOST WIDESPREAD, GENERALISED MOBILISATIOON IS NEEDED AT SOUTH AFRICAN CONSULATES AND EMBASSIES WORLWIDE TO EXPOSE THE REPRESSIVE, MURDEROUS NATURE OF THE MBEKI REGIME

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