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These four devilish anti-fascists were arrested in May after heroically preventing the authorities from transporting a busload of asylum seekers to a prison barge.
Yesterday, all charges against them were dropped! Thus ends the second trial of the 50+ arrestees from the action and so far it’s anti-fascists 2 authorities 0!
May 2024: the good people of Peckham, south London, using their bodies to physically prevent a busload of asylum seekers from being transported to a prison barge.
No reasonable person would characterize another person’s desperate attempt to flee dangerous conditions and find safe refuge a crime. Logically then, UK authorities can’t be considered to be reasonable.
Because this past spring they decided to round up a busload of asylum seekers in Peckham, south London to cart them off to a prison barge!
Luckily, the asylum seekers’ friends and neighbours were not having it and as soon as the bus was full and ready to head to prison, dozens of them physically surrounded the bus, preventing it from going anywhere.
This led to a tense stand-off with police but in the end, the asylum seekers were released and able to return to their homes and the bus drove off empty.
This is not the first time Peckham has rolled deep to rescue refugees. Nearly a year prior, a literal flash mob appeared to surround a van and force immigration cops to release a man they were attempting to deport.
Leave it to the Met, however, to add a sour note to what should have been a good-news story by fabricating charges and arresting 44 of the people who defended their friends and neighbours.
The Defence Fund stepped in to help pay for legal defence of our comrades, and so far the results have been excellent!
The first five defendants had all charges dropped against them minutes after their trial began, when prosecutors failed to submit any evidence to support the charges they were arrested on!
check back for date of NEXT TRIAL
Full story & how the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund helped to provide legal support here.
More trials for the remaining three dozen or so anti-fascists who haven’t had their day in court yet coming soon – donate to their legal defence here!
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These four devilish anti-fascists were arrested in May after heroically preventing the authorities…
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