{"id":24188,"date":"2011-02-22T02:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=24188"},"modified":"2017-05-25T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:38:15","slug":"antifa-notes-february-22-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=24188","title":{"rendered":"antifa notes (february 22, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jock Palfreeman<\/strong><\/p>\n

As expected, Jock Palfreeman’s appeal<\/a> against a 20-year prison sentence has been dismissed<\/a> by the Sofia Court of Appeals. After a further appeal to a higher court has been held, Jock’s case will likely be taken to the European courts: a forum in which there remains some possibility he will obtain a just outcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trial of two neo-Nazis accused of shooting to death in January 2009 human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and investigative journalist Anastasia Baburova<\/a> began this week. Michael Schwirtz (Russian Trial to Bare a Face of Nationalism<\/a>, The New York Times<\/em>, February 19, 2011) adds that ultra right-wing nationalists “have also singled out those considered sympathetic to ethnic minorities or opposed to right-wing ideas and deeds. They have killed several members of an anti-fascist group called Anti-Fa, which arose in response to growing xenophobic violence”, thus seemingly mistaking a general tendency for an organisation.<\/p>\n