Drop the Charges - Demonstration

9am, Monday, Feb 13: Protest: Drop the Charges! Auckland High Court, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant & Parliament Streets, Auckland.

This marks the start of the trial of the remaining four defendants from the police bungled attempt to charge 17 political activists with offences under our freshly-minted terrorism laws. That attempt failed with the terrorism charges abandoned and minor Arms Act charges being reduced and then withdrawn for most defendants. However four and half years on from the dramatic October 15th 2007 raids the police are making a final attempt to get some convictions by trying to prove these four defendants were members of a “criminal gang.” This protest will call for these charges to be dropped in a case based more on silencing political dissent than any half-way credible terrorism threat. Be there to give your support.