Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Bloccare l'importazione di prodotti dalle colonie Israeliane non e' reato!

built both their entrance and exit gates on other peoples land and had no legal right to ask the protesters to leave.
It also became clear that Agrexco could not prove they were trading
lawfully, being unable to show UK import licences for the stocks of
strawberries that were ready to deliver on the day of the protest
action.
Chief Inspector Cumber of Hayes Police who acted as police commander at
the scene of the blockade invoked powers to arrest protesters who
refused to leave land, but had only taken the word of Mr Orr when
investigating who owned the land on which the protesters had set up the
blockade.
The defence argued that even if it was reasonable for the commander to
believe Agrexco UK's General Manager when he had claimed the company
owned the exit and entrance to their property, and then arrest the
protesters under this belief, as this belief was wrong it could no
longer be grounds for convictions for aggravated trespass.
In addition to this top Chief Inspector Cumber's testimony was
undermined, by his claim in court that he had given the protesters a
direction to leave the property by 10:45am. Two other police officers
on the scene were convinced-as were the defendants-that the protesters
were granted till at least 11am to observe the two minutes silence of
armistice day 2004, the day of the blockade. A police decision log?
which would have documented the agreement had mysteriously vanished
from police files he claimed.
The campaign to Boycott Agrexco continues. A website that will gather
information disclosed through Uxbridge case will be launched soon.
Agrexco lost over ?100,000 in profits due to the 2004 blockade. The
defendants will call at the press conference for further direct action
against Agrexco. The defendants are holding a press conference on the
subject of the court victory and >the call for an economic boycott of
Israeli goods on Tuesday 31st January 2006.
Un po' di background sul caso:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4162.shtml
Legality of Israeli Settlements Examined In UK Criminal Trial
Report, CG, 4 September 2005
Seven Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton were
arrested on 11th November last year after they took part in a
non-violent blockade outside the UK base of an Israeli agricultural
export company Agrexco (UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex.
Agrexco is Israel's largest importer of agricultural produce into the
European Union, and it is 50% Israeli state owned. It imports produce
from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The protesters will
argue as a defence that they were acting to prevent crimes against
International law that are also illegal in the UK under the
International Criminal Court Act.
The protestors will face trial at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, between
the 7th- 8th September 2005. They are each charged with two offences
under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Section 68:
(Aggravated Trespass) and Section 69: (Failure To Leave Land.)
In a well planned operation, using wire fences and bicycle D-Locks they
succeeded in blockading the distribution centre, blocking all motor
vehicle traffic in and out of the building. Pedestrians and workers
were still able to enter and leave the factory without obstruction.
No-one was put in any personal danger by the presence of the blockade.
Carmel-Agrexco is 50% owned by the state of Israel, and imports produce
from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. At the same time
Israeli forces have blocked Palestinian exports from the occupied
territories preventing them from taking full advantage of a EU-PA trade
deal. Israeli sponsored settlements have appropriated land and water
resources my military order from Palestinian farmers in a deliberate
policy of militarily back colonisation.
The defendants will argue that since the settlements are illegal under
international law, and that Israel continues to expand these
settlements, in flagrant disregard of the same international law, that
if the Agrexco blockade did cause any disruption to its business, it
was not against a lawful business (as required by the charge of
aggravated trespass), but rather a business involved in aiding and
abetting crimes against international law. The defendant's legal
argument is that the activities of Agrexco are unlawful in that the
company trades with illegal colonial settlements established in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories, as these are contrary to, Section 52
of the International Criminal Courts (ICC) Act 2001. and the Geneva
Conventions Act (GC)1957.* (See note below)
Before taking part in this action many of the defendants had witnessed
first hand the suffering of Palestinian communities under the brutal
Israeli occupation, having served as volunteers with the International
Solidarity Movement (ISM), documenting human rights abuses by the IDF
in the West Bank and Gaza, and taking part in non-violent civil
resistance to the occupation organized by Palestinian civilian
committees.
An expert witness for the defense will be Professor George Joffe, who
is a visiting professor in Geography at King's College London, and
lecturer at the Centre for International Studies at Cambridge
University. Prof. Joffe is considered to be one of the foremost
authorities on the Middle East politics in the UK, being widely
published in academic journals, as well as quoted in mainstream print,
television and radio journalism.
The professor was one of a handful of experts invited by PM Tony Blair
to give advice about the effects of a possible Iraq war before it took
place. Joffe has been outspoken in his criticism of the decision to go
to war, and Israel's expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
He says in a report commissioned for the Uxbridge case;
"There is no doubt that, under international law, the complex of
settlements, interlinking road systems and the Separation Wall are
considered to be illegal. Many aspects of them are illegal under
Israeli domestic law as well."
Other witnesses will include Palestinians affected by the occupation
who will be present in court to give first hand testimony about the
effect of Agrexco's business in the occupied Jordon Valley.
The defendants are hoping the trial will bring greater awareness to a
wider campaign to boycott Israeli goods, that seeks by economic means
to pressure Israel into reversing a policy of systematic racism and
colonialism that has been ongoing for five decades.
There will be a Palestinian breakfast at 9:am on the first day of the
trial outside the court.

 
Titolo de ca**o del solito Torrieri che non conosce la lingua inglese.
Infatti non e' violazione di proprieta' aggravata .... il bloccare
qualcosa su terra altrui.
-Stefano