[Imc-newsroom] FW: Urgent: IMC Switzerland threatened with legal charges (fwd)

[Regina Day Langhout]

Thought you might want to see this, if you don't already know...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Latuff [mailto:latuff at uninet.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:10 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Urgent: IMC Switzerland threatened with legal charges
Importance: High

Dear brothers and sisters from Independent Media Center,

I beg your attention to an important fact.
A Non-Governmental Organization called "Children of Holocaust" is
threatening IMC Switzerland with legal charges for publishing of material
seem by them as "anti-Semitic", including my last cartoon series "We are al=
l
Palestinians".

This is the letter (in German) sent to IMC Switzerland by CoH spokesman
Samuel Althof, where he points a link to my last cartoon from series (scene
from Warsaw Ghetto):

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren von Indymedia-Switzerland

Immer wieder treffen bei uns Beschwerden =FCber antisemitische
Ver=F6ffentlichungen bei http://switzerland.indymedia.org ein, so auch heut=
e.
Siehe:
http://switzerland.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3D8075&group=3Dweb=
cast
<http://switzerland.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3D8075&group=3Dwe=
bcast
>

Wir bitten Sie dem Recht den n=F6tigen Raum zu verschaffen und die
entsprechenden Ver=F6ffentlichungen zu l=F6schen und nicht bloss in den
Zensurk=FCbel ( http://switzerland.indymedia.org/censored.php3 ) zu
verschieben.

Dieses Schreiben geht als Kopie an die entsprechende Polizeibeh=F6rde und i=
st
eine Strafanzeige gegen http://switzerland.indymedia.org

Mit freundlichen Gr=FCssen

Aktion Kinder des Holocaust, AKdH
Samuel Althof, Sprecher AKdH
Postfach
CH-4142 M=FCnchenstein 1
SWITZERLAND
www.akdh.net <http://www.akdh.net>   &  www.shoah.de <http://www.shoah.de>

It's a reaction from conservative sectors from Swiss society that,
certainly, are aligned with Israeli criminal policies and, as Israel and
United States in World Conference Against Racism, do not accept any kind of
criticism to massacre promoted by them against Palestinian people. Moreover=
,
this threat has as goal to silence expressions of rejection to Israel on
Swiss IMC and if they get succeed on this, other IMCs can be also targeted
by such reactionary attacks.

We need to act right now! My suggestion is an article of support to CMI
Switzerland on main page, as well as a net of support formed by other IMCs.
Even disliking editorial staff from IMC Switzerland, my opinion is not what
matters now. We need to fight hard for principles of free and REAL
independent media. So, let's go to support IMC Switzerland and to refuse
malicious allegations from CoH.

You can count on me for anything.

Sincerely yours,

Latuff

Latuff - Image Maker
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
http://www.fzln.org.mx/archivos/multimedia/latuff/index.html