In the Morning a solidarity gathering was held outeside Athens Court (evelpidwn). The attorney sent the 6 comrades to trial facing misdemeanor charges (e.g. they are accused of insulting the national emblem). The trial was postponed for the 8th of May

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In the morning of April 24th, as part of solidarity actions with counter-information media that were recently gagged by the Greek State with the aid of the rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Simos Simopoulos, a large banner was placed at Propylaea on Panepistimiou street in downtown Athens, that reads: “Raise your voice – Fight against state censorship – Athens.indymedia.org & Radio98fm.org” while a red and black flag was raised on the building, replacing their Greek national flag.

A couple of hours later MAT anti-riot squadrons and motorcycle cops encircled the building. More than 30 comrades who participated in the solidarity intervention were detained by the police and transferred to the police headquarters, on Alexandras avenue.

There is a call for solidarity gathering outside the police headquarters.

Update, 15.30pm: A total of 69 detainees are being held in the Athens police headquarters (including two tourists who were caught earlier by the police while they were passing by the site of the anarchist intervention). Almost ten detainees are currently held in detention cells while the rest are kept on the 7th floor. So, the detainees are not all together, and they have not been able to talk to lawyers as of yet. Approximately 200 people in solidarity are gathered outside the police headquarters, on Alexandras avenue.

Update, 21pm: Groups of detainees are gradually being released from the police headquarters, and welcomed by solidarians that remain outside. However, six of those caught in Propylaea have been separated from the other detained people that await their release. Cops continue to run identification checks on the remaining group, but these 6 comrades are still missing. The remaining group of detainees is writing a collective communiqué stating that no one will go till all can go, in solidarity with the 6 comrades who may face charges.

Update, 22.30pm: It was reported that 63 persons were released from the Athens police headquarters. Nevertheless, the 6 comrades will be kept in detention cells all night; they face misdemeanor charges (e.g. they are accused of insulting the national emblem), and will stand before public prosecutor tomorrow morning, 25/4.

Solidarians occupied the building of Economic Services and the building of the Center of Network Infrastructures of NTUA. Dean Simopoulos denied his responsibilities, delivering his authority to the vice-dean, Mrs Moropoulou, who refused this authorization. Radiozones of Subversive Expression started broadcasting from the deanery’s building and after a short period of time an internet shutdown took place in the entire NTUA campus. In the afternoon, solidarians left all the occupied buildings in immaculate condition and called to another manifestation for next morning at the NTUA campus.

The “disappeared”, according to the rector authority, document issued by the Chemical Engineers union was resubmitted to the dean of NTUA, reaffirming its support to the freedom of expression within the institution. The same day the dean called the union representatives to give explanations about their position. The head of the Chemical Engineer’s faculty called the administrative council to confirm their persistence to their signatures and then delivered the document to the dean. At the same time, a manifestation called by both counter-information media and the Self-organized Collective of NTUA took place and was supported by hundreds of solidarians outside the deanery’s building. Late in the night, it was announced that Simopoulos doesn’t accept the students’ council demand and insists upon his decision for silencing the Radiozones of Subversive Expression and Athens Indymedia.

The dean (rector) takes the initiative to cut off the power supply to “Radio Entasi”. At the same time, the internet connection for both Athens Indymedia and Radiozones of Subversive Expression is interrupted despite the fact that the Radiozones broadcast at 93.8fm, a frequency totally separated to the case file. How the lost court case on radio emissions has developed into the silencing of all online counter-information media based on the NTUA campus remains unknown. Instead of any prosecuting motion by a district attorney, the dean of NTUA, Simos Simopoulos, used the maneuver of an internal rule of NTUA which requires all internet provisions (IP) to correspond to named individuals, so that he could ban the internet provision. Naming individuals for the station’s or indymedia’s server, which are self-organized and non person-centered ventures, would lead to state prosecution or fascist and parastate attacks against those individuals. Meanwhile, the student union of the Chemical Engineers faculty undertook the responsibility for these ventures six months ago, stating by signature the union’s name for these internet provisions alongside other political groups. The related document was conveniently declared lost or inexistent.

The deanery of NTUA (National Technical University of Athens, more commonly known as Athens Polytechnic School) loses the trial against EETT’s (Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission) lawsuit related to past broadcasting of the Radiozones of Subversive Expression at 98.1fm from the NTUA premises, as well as about the broadcasts of “Radio Entasi” that occasionally emits from an adjoining terrace near the frequency of the mainstream radio station “SKAI”. It’s another procedural repression attempt that is added to precedent persecutions against Athens Indymedia and Radiozones of Subversive Expression.