[imc-presse] [Cja-press] Copenhagen police continue acts of unprovoked violence on protesters

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PRESS RELEASE
Climate Justice Action
1425, 13 December 2009

COPENHAGEN POLICE CONTINUE ACTS OF UNPROVOKED VIOLENCE ON PROTESTERS
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Around 200 demonstrators are currently being forcefully held in the street
by Danish police near the American Embassy in Copenhagen.

The group had assembled as part of the "Hit the Production" demo. Without
any provocation, the police charged violently at the crowd and began
arrests, forcing people to sit on the ground in 2 degree temperatures while
cuffed. The scenes seem to be an exact repetition of the human rights
violations from yesterday.

Ed Thompson, a climate justice activist from the UK, who is at the scene,
says: "I came here to show that the UN talks don't represent me, that big
business and rich governments can't solve this crisis, and that it's going
to take all of us to avoid climate catastrophe - and the police are
responding with pepper spray, batons and indiscriminate arrests." (1)

50 climate activists have been arrested as of 1340, and there are reports of
the use of batons and pepper spray on journalists as well as protesters. One
journalist from Danish news outlet Ekstra Bladet has reportedly been
arrested.

ENDS

(1) Ed Thompson is available on 0045 5268 6497


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