International Legal Support
Team
We are the Spokepeople for human rights but first and foremost
for prisoners and for those found guilty. During the large scale
anti-globalization happenings, at the No Border camps, in the
alternative anti-G8 villages, as well as the social fora, and
above all at various actions and demonstrations we created the
Legal Teams.
What is the aim of the collective Legal Teams? The Legal Teams
are there to inform people of their rights. They co-ordinate between
protesting activists and the legal representatives. They seek
information on those missing as a result of arrests during actions
by contacting police stations, regional authorities (préfecture)
and hospitals, either by phone or by going personally to these
places, accompanied by lawyers and interpreters able to translate
several languages.
The Legal Teams distribute the phone number of their base widely,
by leaflets and by oral information, to maintain constant presence.
What is the mobile Legal Team? The mobile Legal Team was present
at almost all demonstrations, squats and street sit-ins. It not
only informed people but tried to stop the violence and the constant
and unfounded police brutality. This we did by placing us peacefully
between the activists and the police.
Our work is based on the international conventions on human rights
in arrest and police control situations - both governed by the
United Nations anti-torture resolution signed by most European
countries, including E.K
What is the International Legal Support Team? First of all, the
Legal Team are activists, we are not there to stop or judge militant
actions but to help avoid and denounce criminal police action
(bavure). The police forces (anti-criminal brigade, riot police,
mobile police) are largely protected by laws that are in favour
of them and by the media, the judges and the attorneys general
- unlike the demonstrators, the foreigners, the illegal immigrants,
the strikers, the protesters and the poor.
The International Legal Team is an absolute necessity and must
be developed in every European city and know long before the events
of 11 September, the people of the Third World knew what it was
like to live under a permanent state of terror We are there for
each and every one. When laws are misleading, it is everyone´s
duty to denounce them and to claim, to gain ownership of and to
lean on the European and the Universal declarations of human rights.The
world will be saved and a better place when we no longer need
thepolice.
You can take action now !
Join us 020-7377-9088 e-mail: free_ilst@yahoo.de
LARC/ International Legal Support Team
Co-ordinator Alain Charlemoine
62 Fieldgate Street
London E1 1ES |
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