Marianne / Belgium Prisoners is Top Story at Wetlands-Preserve.org

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University World News: Belgium: Academic arrested and mistreated by police

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20101015200409520
 

Cop Block: Pluto author arrested and tortured in Belgium
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Network for Academic and Educational Rights Action Alert in Support of Dr. Maeckelbergh

Arrest and mistreatment of US Professor of Anthropology

www.nearinternational.org/alert-detail.asp?alertid=569

A Netherlands-based US professor is accusing Belgian police of abuse during a crackdown on recent protests for migrant rights in Belgium, Red Pepper reported on 6 October 2010.

Dr Marianne Maeckelbergh, Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leiden, was arrested on 1 October whilst taking pictures of the arrest of activists taking part in the “No Borders” protest camp in Brussels. Dr Maeckelbergh had arrived to Brussels two hours before her arrest and intended to visit the camps over the weekend as part of her ongoing academic research.

Translation of El Impacto.es Article

The article contains one inaccuracy -- Dr. Maeckelbergh was taking pictures of an arrest she observed while at a cafe.  She was not  at the No Border camp.
 

Original Spanish at http://www.elimpulso.es/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=19173&format=html
 

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Democracy Now! Video - US Professor Accuses Belgian Police of Abuse

US Professor Accuses Belgian Police of Abuse

A Holland-based US professor and activist is accusing police in Belgium of abusing her as part of a crackdown on a recent protest for migrant rights. Dr. Marianne Maeckelbergh of Holland's University of Leiden says she was taking pictures of the "No Border Camp" in Brussels when she was arrested. Maeckelbergh says Belgian police dragged her by her hair, chained her to a radiator, kicked her, and subjected her to verbal abuse as well as threats of sexual assault. Video after the break:

Former Red Pepper worker arrested and tortured

(http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Former-Red-Pepper-worker-arrested)


Last Friday, during the No Border Camp: a convergence of struggles aiming to end the system of borders that divide us all, Marianne Maeckelbergh (US citizen and professor at the University of Leiden, Netherlands), a former Red Pepper worker, current contributor and a long-time global justice activist and the author of ‘The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement Is Changing the Face of Democracy’, was arrested for taking pictures while police were making arrests in Brussels, Belgium.

Having just entered Belgium, some two hours earlier, she witnessed violent arrests on the street. When Marianne began taking pictures, she was arrested. She was taken into police custody where she was violently dragged by her hair, chained to a radiator, hit, kicked, spat upon, called a whore, and threatened with sexual assault by the police. She also witnessed the torture of another prisoner also chained to a radiator.