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Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested

43
years ago

09 December 1981,

Arrest of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. He was a member of the Black Panthers Party, president of the Black Journalists Association. Accused of firing a police officer, he was sentenced to death although he defended his innocence. He spent 29 years on death row until in 2011 he was changed to prison for his entire life. Well-known activist against police abuse, in the trial, their rights were violated. He has been in prison for 43 years since he was arrested today.

On this day
1933An anarchist rebellion took place in Labastida
1984Manoli Arza Sueskun was seriously injured in Pamplona by the GAL
1987First Intifada begins in Palestine

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1981-01-18
New Cross Fire: Crime against the Black Community in London
1981-01-29
Military ETA kidnaps general engineer of Ryan Lemoiz's nuclear power plant
1981-02-04
The king of Spain sang 'Eusko gudariak' at the Casa de Juntas de Gernika
1981-02-13
Joxe Arrangi dies from Carabanchel's torture
1981-02-23
A group of Spanish military personnel led by Colonel Tejero attempted a coup d'état
1981-02-27
The bar Victor Fernández Otxoa was shot by Batallon Vasco Español
1981-02-28
100,000 people met to call for a nuclear plant to be shut down in Bonn, Germany
1981-04-27
Etchandy Industrial Millionaire Helicopter Exploded With Pump in Maule
1981-05-05
Bobby Sands dies on 66th day of hunger strike, IRA member
1981-05-07
Over 100,000 people at Bobby Sands funeral in Belfast
1981-05-10
Case Almería: The Civil Guard tortured and killed three young Spaniards believing they were from ETA
1981-06-09
A gigantic antinuclear symbol was placed on the dome of a reactor at the plant in Lemoiz.
1981-06-19
Kepa Crespo died after three months of hunger strike, prisoner of the Communist Party of Spain
1981-08-05
They annulled the marriage of reparation that legalized the rape of women in Italy
1981-08-08
Thomas McElwee, IRA prisoner on hunger strike, dies in prison Maze
1981-08-27
A group of women embark on the road from Wales to England against an American military base
1981-09-07
In Navarra the dantzaris of Ochagavía refused to dance to the military
1981-09-10
Picasso's Guernica was transferred to Madrid from the MoMa Museum in New York
1981-10-03
A seven-month hunger strike ended Northern Republican prisoners in Ireland
1981-10-04
Popular camp in Belagua against the military area
1981-12-09
Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested

This month's anniversaries:
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5
years ago
2019-12-17
The ruling of the De Miguel case was announced, the largest corruption case ever prosecuted in Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa
10
years ago
2014-12-15
The Ertzaintza confronted in Gernika-Lumo the popular wall gathered to prevent the arrest of Jone Amézaga
10
years ago
2014-12-07
A former civil guard entered the Barcelona zoo in the lions cage and ended up seriously wounded
15
years ago
2009-12-28
The first marriage of two persons of the same sex in South America was held in Argentina
15
years ago
2009-12-13
Maialen Lujanbio won the txapela of the Bertsolaris National Championship
20
years ago
2004-12-31
Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, is beaten in the face by a worker
20
years ago
2004-12-26
A tsunami killed thousands in South Asia, most in Indonesia
20
years ago
2004-12-10
US journalist Gary Webb committed suicide
25
years ago
1999-12-23
Olentzero hung on the wall of Algeciras prison to free local prisoners
25
years ago
1999-12-12
30,000 tons of fuel were dumped by the oil tanker Erika on the Breton coast
30
years ago
1994-12-14
Thousands of people requested the Euskaldunization of the UPV/EHU in Vitoria-Gasteiz
35
years ago
1989-12-30
In the march of the Herrera de la Mancha, 12,000 people met in Madrid
35
years ago
1989-12-20
US invades Panama
40
years ago
1984-12-10
The Gay and Lesbian Mining Protection Association organized a festival in Britain to support the mining strike economically
40
years ago
1984-12-09
Manoli Arza Sueskun was seriously injured in Pamplona by the GAL
40
years ago
1984-12-03
At the Bhopal chemical plant, the early morning was one of the most serious accidents in the world, in India.
40
years ago
1984-12-02
In India, Bhopal chemical plant, the night of one of the most serious accidents in the world.
45
years ago
1979-12-15
Jesús Mari Leizaola, president of the Exile Government, returned to Euskal Herria
45
years ago
1979-12-13
The Basque prisoner was released from prison by Amnesty's decree: Fran Aldasoro
50
years ago
1974-12-23
One hundred Santa Claus reported Christmas marketing in Copenhagen and were arrested
50
years ago
1974-12-22
100 people reported unemployment and Christmas consumerism in Copenhagen
50
years ago
1974-12-18
Civil Guard murdered young man Mikel Salegi Urbieta in roadside control in San Sebastian
50
years ago
1974-12-17
ETA murdered two civil guards, one of them, the famous torturer
50
years ago
1974-12-11
The largest general strike of Franco took place in Hego Euskal Herria
55
years ago
1969-12-04
FBI killed Fred Hampton, one of the leaders of the Black Panthers
60
years ago
1964-12-24
Vietnam National Liberation Front attacked hotel Brinks
60
years ago
1964-12-02
Police arrested 800 people in the United States protesting solidarity with those convicted of distributing political literature
75
years ago
1949-12-21
Thomas Sankara is born in Burkina Faso
75
years ago
1949-12-03
The first edition of Euskera International Day was held at the initiative of Eusko Ikaskuntza
80
years ago
1944-12-10
Nine machines were killed in Catalonia by former civil guards and Francoist soldiers
80
years ago
1944-12-01
The French carried out the massacre in Senegal by France II. Fighting soldiers in MG
85
years ago
1939-12-29
Feminist psychiatrist and activist Madeleine Pelletier dies
90
years ago
1934-12-27
Mari Cruz Guruzeta dies, a midwife born in Aramaio and founder of Areatza Emakume Abertzale Batza
100
years ago
1924-12-06
Entering Bera, anarchists were executed in Pamplona seeking to rise up against Primo de Rivera
110
years ago
1914-12-25
I. British and German MG front soldiers made a spontaneous truce to celebrate Christmas together
135
years ago
1889-12-19
The Basque Country Nemesio Etxaniz Aranbarri was born in Azkoitia
165
years ago
1859-12-25
In Australia, 24 European rabbits were released and one of the fastest colonizations in history began.