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Anarchist Arrested in Iceland;Soli Demo report international |
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 Tuesday November 25, 2008 20:49 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.
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