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Protest against on-going police raids
Protest against on-going police raids
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is helping co-ordinate a protest against the on-going police raids and arrests from Operation 8.
The details of the protest are:
12pm Aotea Square, Auckland, Saturday 23rd February (this Saturday)
The protest will be calling for an end to the raids and arrests. The police have had over 18 months to investigate and lay charges. These latest raids and arrests – coming four months after the original raids on October 15th 2007 – smack of harassment arising from frustration.
We know there is huge reservoir of resentment within the police operation at the failure of the original arrests to result in terrorism charges against the political activists who were arrested.
The simple truth is that there was never any credible terrorist threat and the original raids were a dramatic over-reaction on the part of police. It is hard to see the latest arrests as anything more than a nasty, vindictive follow-up.
John Minto
Spokesperson
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