Author: g8medianetwork
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At Sapporo in Japan on the “Challenge the Summit – 10,000 people peacewalk” four people were arrested. Our G8 Media Network member was arrested. The media are not talking about this. We find this arrest regrettable.
At the time of arrest, the G8 Media Network data collection group and a large number of witnesses were present, but the police excessively controlled the march and it is not clear why the police decided that an arrest was necessary. In addition, the situation has got to the point where authorised, foreign journalists are arrested, but you can see that the police were disturbed since the beginning by being photographed by a data collection person. The attitude of harshly controlling people who peacefully demonstrate and people…