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CJA press release:
Copen­hagen Police Accused of Vio­lat­ing Human Rights at UN Sum­mit

Sat 12 Dec

Dan­ish police have indis­crim­i­nate­ly arrest­ed hun­dreds of cli­mate jus­tice activists dur­ing a cli­mate change protest made up of 100,000 peo­ple that took place today in Copen­hagen. Ques­tions have been raised about the fact that the arrests occurred in a dif­fer­ent time and place to where some trou­ble had momen­tar­i­ly flared ear­li­er in the day. Jour­nal­ists have been restrict­ed from report­ing at the site of the arrests since 1800hrs.

It’s esti­mat­ed that 100 peo­ple are still being held on the road in extreme­ly cold weath­er, cuffed and forced into seat­ed posi­tions in lines (1). They have expressed severe phys­i­cal dis­com­fort and have no access to water, med­ical atten­tion or toi­let facil­i­ties since 1530hrs. Many activists are report­ed to have uri­nat­ed them­selves while detained on the ground.

An esti­mat­ed 200 have been removed from the site and tak­en away in coach­es. Sev­er­al peo­ple are report­ed to have faint­ed around 1945hrs.

Hel­ga Matthi­assen, who was detained for an hour before being released due to an injury she had recent­ly sus­tained, said, “Of course we’re angry — peo­ple all over the world are angry about being lied to by gov­ern­ments who are mak­ing a cor­po­rate deal at the cli­mate talks, and now when we try to protest against this on the streets we are ran­dom­ly held by police.

“Not only have we been denied the right to protest, but our basic human rights have also been ignored in this ludi­crous, staged police exer­cise. It seems Dan­ish Police have a new mot­to: why just crim­i­nalise pro­test­ers, when you can dehu­man­ise them too?” (2)

ENDS

Con­tact: 0045 5066 9028 (Inter­na­tion­al)
0045 4129 4994 (Dan­ish)
media@climate-justice-action.org

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NOTES TO EDITORS
(1) http://twitpic.com/t7dts
(2) See Hel­ga inter­viewed on TV2 News, 2015 broad­cast http://news.tv2.dk/?channel

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Video

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At the demo in Copen­hagen on the 12.12.09, some demon­stra­tors smashed in the win­dows of the Stock Mar­ket, also the min­istry of for­eign affairs had its win­dows bro­ken.

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Time­line

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COP15 EASIER access to Den­mark and COPENHAGEN

The Dan­ish and Ger­man police forces and the intel­li­gence ser­vices (PET, FE, BND) of both coun­tries, and prob­a­bly also some oth­er coun­tries, “vio­lence ser­vices” has made it more dif­fi­cult to enter Den­mark in order to avoid polit­i­cal activist to enter the coun­try and join the demos at COP15 etc.

BUT, there are more, per­haps, less con­trolled bor­ders to Den­mark, they fol­low below, and also warn­ings against the more con­trolled bor­der cross­ings.

DONT TRAVEL THROUGH:

Copen­hagen Air­port or Bil­lund Air­port

and;

The land bor­der cross­ing at PADBORG, KRUSÅ, in oth­er words AVOID any land bor­der cross­ings in Jyl­land!

TRAVEL BETTER THROUGH THESE CROSSINGS
(so far):

RED ROUTE ONE;
Trav­el to Ros­tock in Ger­many (old DDR), best by train/bus/car, then jump on the fer­ry (SCANDLINES) to GEDSER port in Den­mark, less heavy con­trolled, at the moment.

Then jump on the train/bus to Copen­hagen, takes two hours.

RED ROUTE TWO;
Trav­el to Hels­ing­borg in Swe­den, best by train/bus/car, then jump on the fer­ry (SCANDLINES or HH-fer­ries) to HELSINGØR port in Den­mark, less heavy con­trolled, at the moment.

Then jump on the train to Copen­hagen, takes one hour.

Or take the local train to Hillerød (half an hour) and then the S‑train to Copen­hagen, 40 mint. trav­el time.

RED ROUTE THREE;
Trav­el to Oslo in Nor­way, take the fer­ry direct to Copen­hagen (DFDS).

RED ROUTE FOUR;
Trav­el to Born­holm, then by fer­ry to Køge, then S‑train to Copen­hagen (half hour).

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aggre­gat­ing rad­i­cal news about Copen­hagen

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Cli­mate Radio is fil­ing dai­ly audio bul­letins from inside the Bel­la Cen­tre where the most impor­tant talks in human his­to­ry are hap­pen­ing. Dur­ing the sec­ond week we’ll also have reports from the street actions and par­al­lel People’s Sum­mit aka Kli­mafo­rum. Copen­hagen Dai­ly has a run­ning time of 60 min­utes