WTO: Red Carpet for Delegates, Activists Get Harassment

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Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 by Inter Press Service

WTO: Red Carpet for Delegates, Activists Get Harassment
by Aaron Glantz

HONG KONG - After months of rumours that opponents of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will wreak havoc on the city, activists here say Hong Kong authorities have launched a targeted campaign of harassment.

South Korean workers and farmers fight with Hong Kong riot police as they try to march toward main venue for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters rallied in Hong Kong as the WTO meeting opens on Tuesday in the territory. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

Trouble for activists could start right at Hong Kong airport, where authorities have rolled out a red carpet for ministerial delegates and high officials.

Among those taken aside for interrogation were French farmer and activist Jose Bove, three Thai campaigners and four prominent Filipinos - - including leaders of the country's left-wing political movement, its largest feminist organisation and a prominent trade union leader.

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And less than a year from now, Smirky's authority to sign trade agreements disappears, and Congress will have to approve by a super majority. Ain't gonna happen; the farm states will kill it.

all they dreamed.

Oxfam is applying some heavy pressure also.
they originally thought they would just pull the wool over the eyes of the unwashed masses. It would be easy..
people are a bit smarter than that

to hold them in un-democratic countries, where this kind of stuff is all in a days work.