A second update with snippets of information from across Egelion in the last 12 months.
Violence Intensifies Across EgelionAug 4378
Violence has continued to increase in Egelion through the summer of 4378. Communist terrorists have conducted many attacks throughout the country causing dozens of deaths and millions in damage. In the countryside armed leftist “bandits” have engaged in firefights against both the police and the armed forces in a situation that is beginning to represent a conventional conflict rather than a break down in law and order.
Heavily armed police on patrolThe police have been increasingly armed with military weapons, with a number of police units looking more like soldiers than the traditional Egelion policeman. Additionally the paramilitary Civil Guard have been supporting the police and military in offensive activity, rather than protection of key sites which was the original role of the Civil Guard. Casualty numbers have slowly crept up with hundreds reported killed in fighting in the last six months between pro-government forces and opposition groups.
The police have increased arrests of civilians accused of being “extreme leftists”Mass incarceration of individuals accused of links with Communist terrorists have occurred. Some universities, factories, mines and Trade Union offices have been seriously depleted of staff as police sweeps have arrested thousands of people across the country leading to a severe shortage of space in Egelions prisons. Students have been arrested at protests and striking workers have also been arrested. Worrying a number of activists have been killed by the security forces “while resisting arrest” or following attempt to “escape from custody”.
Death Penalty for TerroristsNov 4378
The verdict is in and following the
restoration of capital punishment in Egelion, 11 defendants accused of involvement in the
September 4378 terrorist atrocity have been convicted and sentenced to death. This has caused concerns amongst some lawyers as the crime was committed prior to the reintroduction of the death penalty but the very right-wing Minister of Justice Constanza de la Cavallería has ensured that the punishment can apply retrospectively. Since capital punishment was reintroduced a number of criminals have been executed for murder, and there are dozens more “terrorists” currently on trial accused of murder who may well also be executed if found guilty.
Socialist Party BannedMar 4379
The
Athiest Socialist Party (PSA) has been banned following the fall out of the trial and prosecution of the terrorists involved in the
September 77 terrorist attack. The PSA had 13 seats in the National Congress and although only one member of Congress had been implicated in the evidence presented to the courts, the Supreme Court took the decision to formally ban the PSA, denying it public funds, precenting its members from sitting in Congress and outlawing continued use of the name.
Government Terrorist CrackdownAug 4379
The Minister of Justice Constanza de la Cavallería, a hardliner and potential future Liga leadership candidate, has announced a tough new raft of measures that the Liga will put to vote in Congress.
The Anti-Terrorism Proposals follow on from other legislation that has been implemented since the start of the
State of Emergency proposes that the police are fully militarised, provide the police with extra measures to catch criminals and maintain security on the streets, that corporal punishment is introduced as a punishment to deal with overcrowding in prisons following the crackdown on suspected terrorists, ID cards are introduced on a compulsory basis and finally that “harsh” measures are legalised to allow the extraction of vital information.
The Liga have proposed corporal punishment as a solution to overcrowding in prisons following the mass arrests of leftists through 4379.The last has especially caused condemnation from civil rights lawyers. Allegations of torture have pervaded the police and military since the declaration of a state of emergency in 4378. This would appear to offer legal cover for “heavy handed” interrogation of suspects, where “information is deemed vital”. The wording of the law remains open to interpretation which would give the security forces the legal