On the 4th November 2015 six members of the group Straight Edge
Madrid (SxE Madrid) were arrested and charged by the Spanish Audiencia
Nacional, a national court of exception (based in Madrid) that deals
with terror charges. Their only crime is their ideas: anarchist, vegan
and against all drugs. They have been targeted for their work as
organisers of hardcore punk concerts thought which they promote healthy,
drug-free leisure activities for young people. The required legal
rights of detainees were not respected during the arrest. Following the
repressive police operation, four of the arrested were released on ball
(3.000 to 10.000€ each), and the two others were imprisoned preventative
pending trial. One of them was Nahuel (Juan Manuel Bustamante Vergara),
who to this day remains a hostage of the State in the special detention
system "FIES 3" Articulated. This system targets those considered
“dangerous or conflictive”. His time in prison is exceptionally brutal:
he has been in isolation for 30 days, he has been transferred without
being given the required 24 hours notice and he has had his
communications restricted and controlled. Furthermore he has been denied
his legal right to be given vegan food for 16 weeks. The aim of all
this is none other than the disconnection and maladjustment of Nahuel.
Throughout this time the investigation has been kept under a gag order,
stopping the lawyers of the accused from knowing what their clients were
charged with, hence violating their right to a proper legal defence. At
the same time the Spanish State Regime”s media outlets had access to
the very information the accused and their lawyers were refused access
to. The operation against SxE Madrid is the latest in a series of
attacks young people engaged in social change in the Spanish state. Most
recently Operations Pandora and Piñata have seen down raids on
squatting social centres and dozens of arrests. There is a clear
ideological persecution against those who dissent and we are sure the
accused are innocent. For all these reasons we demand the liberation of
Nahuel and the acquittal of all the defendants.
FREE NAHUEL
FREE ALL
POLITICAL PRISONERS
ACQUIT THOSE PROSECUTED FOR THE STRUGGLE
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