an hour agoEmbarrassed: Authorities for writing feminists in Mitrovica are sentenced by court
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Four activists and activists have been fined yesterday by the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica for writing graphs on the public walls of this city. The women's writing action undertaken by the Council for Thinking and Religious Action of April 25, 2021 is considered to be a breach of order and public calm by [...]
The women's writing action undertaken by the Council for Thinking and Religious Action of April 25th, 2021 is considered to be a breach of order and public calm under the decision. This collective views this decision as another institutional effort to suppress feminist interventions in any form they can take.
The media communiqué sent by the Council for Religious Thinking and Action, among other things, says:
Our trial is based on two main promises:
1. The public areas of the Mitrovica municipality, as well as other cities, are filled with x-rays, the content of which is often fascist, sexist and serves hate and violence. However, we have not heard of anyone convicted of them.
2. The main reason for the random initiative by the Police Institute was the content, not the act for that.
The approach of police officials in Mitrovica has shown that the Police Institute has been “concerned” about the messages that have been written. During the interrogation of activists/sectors, police officials have been irritated by inscriptions like “virability is the invention of men”, who have answered the question that “what if I want the virgin grave?”. On the other hand, the controversy has also been on the discrostive level, focusing on words that have religious overtones like the words “ob”, “haram”. In this, police officials have insisted that selecting words should be done more neutrally so that “does not provoke” to any particular community. All these statements were made under police uniform, which teaches it is built on the principle of respect for gender equality and secularism.
After completing the police interrogation, the case has been recorded by police with the reasoning that the inscriptions “have conveyed humiliating and offensive messages” and sent to the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica, where the verdict has been made to punish four of the activists.
For us, this decision cannot be read differently than how a signal of activating the state's monitoring device aimed at disciplining feminists/people. The institutional frustration with any attempt to destabilise the quo status that continues to violate girls and women and other undeserved identities is visible and is manifestly violent. However, we stress that we will oppose this enterprise by continuing our collective resistance to freedom from any institutional oppression.”
