[gipfelsoli] St. Petersburg

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- Unterstützung für einen minderjährigen politischen Gefangenen in St.
Petersburg!
- (DE)Aleksej Jakovlev heute erneut in Petersburg verhaftet
- Mrs. Blair, Lawyers Support Activists (St. Petersburg Times)
- Hottest July Day Ever in England

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Unterstützung für einen minderjährigen politischen Gefangenen in St. Petersburg!
(DE)Aleksej Jakovlev heute erneut in Petersburg verhaftet
Mrs. Blair, Lawyers Support Activists (St. Petersburg Times)
Hottest July Day Ever in England

Endlich (nach 9 Tagen!!) gelang es uns Anton Pavljukevich ausfindig zu machen.
Er befindet sich, wie zuvor auch andere minderjährige Gefangene, im "Zentrum
für zeitweilige Isolierung minderjähriger Straftäter" (ZVINP) unter der Adresse
ul. Sedova 54, k. 3, Metro Jelizarovskaja.
Er wurde am 10. Juli unweit jener "unschönen Wohnung" (wo es vor dem G8 noch
weitere Festnahmen gab) festgenommen und erhielt nach einigen Angaben (Anwalt
und Abschnittsbevollmächtigter der Miliz, der zu seiner Mutter kam und ihr die
Lage 8 (!) Tage nach Festnahme erklärt hat) 30 Tage Haft aufgrund einer
erfundenen Beschuldigung (geringfügiger Hooliganismus, gemeint ist unflätiges
Geschimpfe an einem öffentlichen Ort) bis ihn seine Eltern oder ein anderer
gesetzlich bevollmächtigter Vertreter abholt (diese Information stammt aus dem
ZVINP und entspricht anderen identischen Urteilen bei Minderjährigen. Wenn
diese innerhalb von 30 Tagen nicht abgeholt werden, werden sie in ihre
Heimatstadt gebracht und dort von den Mitarbeitern des ZVINP den Eltern
übergeben). Seine Eltern können aufgrund verschiedener Umstände ihren Sohn
nicht abholen.

Auf diese Weise bleibt öffentlicher Druck als einzige Möglichkeit ihm zu helfen,
früher in Freiheit zu kommen und in seine Heimatstadt gebracht zu werden.

Ruft deshalb an beim
- ZVINP +7 (812) 569-65-06

Fragt nach ob Anton noch dort festgehalten wird und wann er zu seinen Eltern
gebracht wird etc.

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(DE)Aleksej Jakovlev heute erneut in Petersburg verhaftet

Heute (20.7.) tagsüber wurde Aleksej Jakovlev, Anarchist aus Naberezhnye Chelny
erneut in der 28. Abteilung der Miliz in St. Petersburg festgenommen.
Er hatte an der Aktion am Radisson Hotel am 16. Juli teilgenommen. Bei jener
Festnahme wurde er verletzt und in das Marinskij Krankenhaus eingeliefert. In
der 28. Abteilung blieb sein Pass zurück. Das Krankenhaus hat er nach der
Untersuchung verlassen. Bei dem Versuch heute seinen Pass abzuholen wurde er
festgenommen und dem Richter vorgeführt. Und was glaubt ihr? Er erhielt 2 Tage
Haft! Im Augenblick befindet er sich in der Zaharjevskaja ulitsa 6. Da ihm für
die erste Festnahme lediglich zwei Stunden angerechnet wurden, kommt er nun
erst am Samstag den 22. Juli raus.


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Mrs. Blair, Lawyers Support Activists (St. Petersburg Times)

An article in St. Petersburg's English-language newspaper covering repressions.
Russian lawyers say that the government repressed antiglobalists and opposition
activists during the G8 summit, as they tried to reach an alternative event.

But on Monday, Russian human rights advocates received the help of Cherie Blair,
a human rights lawyer and the wife of the British prime minister, who offered
them the help of her legal chambers.

Activists were detained en route to the city or during the Second Russian Social
Forum, a protest gathering of opposition forces intended as a satellite event
for the G8 summit on July 15-17, the lawyers said.

Natalya Zvyagina, a resident of Voronezh and an activist with Legal Team, a
network of lawyers who provided legal support to the forum, said life was made
miserable for ordinary citizens and activists who attempted to take to the
streets last weekend to demonstrate their critical attitudes to the policies of
the world's leading states.

Zvyagina said her organization has collected information about at least 24 cases
of "preventative detention" and more than 140 cases of illegal police
persecution of the counter-summit's delegates and participants from across the
country.

"Eight people were stopped more than once on the way to the counter-summit, with
police confiscating their tickets or documents," Zvyagina said. "We know of 26
cases of the police attempting to force activists to sign a written undertaking
not to leave a specified location - a document that can only be forced on
somebody by a court ruling."

City Hall refused to give permission to an antiglobalist march from Kirov
Stadium to the cruiser Avrora, as well as an anti-war meeting and a Communist
march on Nevsky Prospekt during the summit.

Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who attended the alternative summit, said marches
were banned for the sake of everyone's security. "Nobody can guarantee the
safety of the march's participants and local citizens," she said. "Besides, any
street activity is hugely disturbing to citizens and if I'd have allowed it the
public would have been mad at me."

But activists argue that City Hall's "arbitrary behavior" violates the Russian
Constitution that declares the people's right to hold peaceful gatherings.

Dmitry Makarov, a lawyer with Legal Team and a resident of Oryol, said that
during the summit St. Petersburg was in an emergency state de facto.

"Police cordons at every corner, illegal searches in people's apartments,
endless document checks with no reasons given - what is that if not an
emergency state," he said. "It was an illustration of just how easily and how
fast repressive methods are implemented when they are needed by the state. It
also shows that the police here do not find it necessary to use legal methods
to keep order."

Makarov claimed to have knowledge of several cases of the police telling people
directly that they were detained "in connection with the summit" and that they
would be released "as soon as the summit is over."

"The problem is that the law enforcement agencies follow what they regard as
expediency and they can easily ignore the law," the lawyer said.

Environmentalist Ivan Ninenko was in St. Petersburg on July 10 when his
apartment in Moscow was invaded by the police. "An officer dressed in civilian
clothes rang my apartment and introduced himself to my roommate as a neighbor
whose apartment we 'flooded'," Ninenko recalls.

"He opened the door and a police squad stormed in, and when my friend tried to
reach for the phone, he was hit, and his phone was confiscated.

He was then escorted to a police station, questioned about the counter-summit
and people involved in preparing it. He was asked to give a written note
confirming that he was not going to attend the alternative summit. All that
with no protocols or explanations."

An offer of legal help arrived unexpectedly on Monday this week, when Cherie
Blair, a prominent human rights lawyer who works for the Matrix legal chambers,
paid a visit to the offices of Citizens' Watch human rights group instead of
attending a scheduled visit to a handicraft exhibition. Citizens' Watch is an
outspoken critic of the Kremlin.

Mrs. Blair's meeting with the organization was closed to reporters, but Yury
Vdovin, co-chairman of Citizen's Watch, said the British prime minister's wife
volunteered to help with legal support when the discussion touched on the topic
of the new law concerning the funding of non-governmental organizations.

The law, which came into force in April, opens the way for restrictions on
foreign funding of human rights groups. Its critics say that the law creates
major bureaucratic obstacles to the registration process.

"This law was masterfully written and is meant to be used as a powerful weapon
with a telescopic sight against the most irritating groups," Vdovin said. "Mrs.
Blair asked us if we have any plans to send an appeal to the European Court of
Human Rights and offered the help of her chambers, should the need arise."

According to a statement provided by Human Rights Watch, Mrs. Blair said at the
meeting that she "believes passionately that civil society is very much a part
of civilized society."

"As a human rights lawyer, I came here to hear your experiences and to celebrate
the work you carry out," she was reported as saying.

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Hottest July Day Ever in England

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor for The Independent -

Published: 20 July 2006
Britain experienced its hottest-ever July
day yesterday, as much of the southern
half of the country sweltered in blazing
sunshine.

The July record, nearly a century old, was breached at a Met Office weather
recording station at Charlwood in Surrey, where just after 1.30pm the
thermometer reached 36.3C, or 97.3F.

The old record of 36C (96.8F) was set at Epsom, Surrey, on 22 July 1911, and has
only once been closely approached in the 95 years since then - when 35.9C
(96.6F) was recorded at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 3 July, 1976, in
another famously sweltering summer.

Besides the new national record, local records for July were equalled or broken
in many places, including Heathrow airport (35.3C) and the London Weather
Centre (33.9C), while Wales equalled its July record with 33.6C (92.5F),
recorded at RAF Valley on Anglesey.

Scotland, however, was not so blisteringly hot, with a maximum of 31C recorded
at Prestwick airport, south-west of Glasgow; the Scottish record for July is
32.8C. North-eastern Scotland was distinctly chilly, with the temperature in
Shetland not exceeding 15C - "drizzly and horrid", said the Met Office.

But in southern England the temperatures were higher than in many tropical
resorts - British temperatures this week have outstripped holiday destinations
including Athens, Bermuda, Rio de Janeiro and Rome - and across the country
there was a rush for products designed for keeping cool.

The electrical retailer Comet sold a fan every two seconds - its highest ever
rate - while customers snapped up one air-conditioning unit every 30 seconds
and a fridge-freezer every 17 seconds. The trend was echoed by Argos, where
customers spent nearly £1m on fans and cooling systems yesterday.

Forecasters had indicated that this week there was a 30 per cent chance of
exceeding the all-time UK record of 38.5C (101.3F), reached in Kent on 10
August 2003, but yesterday afternoon temperatures in the present heatwave were
considered to have peaked. More unsettled weather will gradually approach from
the west - it was raining in parts of Cornwall yesterday - but for the next few
days, at least in the South-east, it will still feel "pretty hot", said the Met
Office.

Scientists have repeated this week that the rising temperatures being
experienced around the world - attributed to man-made global warming with
increasing confidence - make reaching or exceeding previous maximum
temperatures far more likely.

Hot spots

* Keepers at Colchester Zoo in Essex, gave animals specially made ice blocks
yesterday. Lions were being given ice blocks flavoured with blood in their
enclosures, and monkeys, blocks containing fruit.

* At Edinburgh Zoo, Britain's only captive polar bear, Mercedes, took refuge in
her pool. Her keepers freeze food into ice blocks in her enclosure so she has
to work to get at her lunch of berries, but the 25-year-old has not had to wait
long for it to melt this week. Mercedes is the only polar bear in a British zoo
since the death three years ago of Mandy at Flamingo Land Zoo and Theme Park in
North Yorkshire.

* Officials at the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire have suspended
visitors' rights to veer from footpaths, fearing the hot weather could cause
fires in dry woodland areas. It is the first time access to the moorland has
been restricted since open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act
in 2004. Sean Prendergast, the head of access and recreation, said: "People are
welcome to walk all over the National Park as long as they stick to public
footpaths."

* Central London schools are adopting continental hours this week to try to keep
children cool. Ten primary and secondary schools will be closing at 1.30pm, two
hours earlier than usual, and others have called off their traditional summer
sports days.

* Water was offered to motorists stuck on the A14 trunk road in Cambridgeshire
following two accidents. Members from the rescue service Spartan Rescue used
quad bikes to get water to drivers.

* In the House of Commons, the Speaker, Michael Martin, relaxed the strict dress
code which compels reporters to wear jackets in the Press Gallery. Journalists
can now attend in shirt-sleeve order.

* The heatwave is starting to cause problems in continental Europe. In France,
the heatwave has probably caused the deaths of nine people this week, a Health
Ministry official said. Authorities there are on high alert because of soaring
temperatures; some 15,000 mostly old people died in the 2003 heatwave that
caught health services and politicians by surprise. Most of the nine deaths
this week were in the south-west, where the temperature reached almost 40C
(104F).

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