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CARMEL CREAMED

In yet another victory, yesterday all charges where dropped – after seven months of police bail - against the six arrested at Carmel Agrexco during Camp For Climate Action in August last year (See SchNEWS 600). The six were arrested for burglary with intent to cause criminal damage after a blockade where two activists d-locked themselves to the gates to stop deliveries at the Hayes depot of Carmel – the 50% Israeli state-owned importer of produce grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. One of the arrestees said “Basically I was arrested for being a gobby little shite to one of the security goons who accused three protesters of assault – when in fact it was him physically abusing us.”

When the protesters were released, police kept their clothes and they had to wear paper suits. Yet, as soon as they were out of the station, them and their clear plastic bags of possessions were searched under the Terrorism Act.

* For more see www.bigcampaign.org

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