Organizing an action

When you are organizing an action or a demonstration, always contact the Arrestantengroep beforehand (you can make an appointment via the telephone or over e-mail, so the details can be discussed face to face). Please realize that arrests can and do happen at peaceful, entirely legal actions too. It is important for the participants in any form of protest to know their rights, and to have the necessary support in case something goes wrong.

Contacting a lawyer, making flyers, finding people who can do the
Arrestantengroep work etc. always takes some time. So please don't wait until the very last moment! Lawyers especially are notoriously difficult to find last-minute. If you have not arranged for a lawyer beforehand this can cause major problems for the people who get arrested, and it will create a tremendous amount of work for both you and the Arrestantengroup.

If you have competent people available you might consider running your own arrestantengroep. Of course we can help you with this, in fact we'd love to. At some point there will be an extensive how-to guide for this on this website, for now we are asking you to call or e-mail us so we can meet up and offer our support.

There is now also an Arrestantengroep in Utrecht

Useful downloads:

Know-your-rights pamphlet (pdf)

Arrestantenpamflet (in Dutch) (pdf)
Form for witnesses (English version coming up) (pdf)
List of potential arrestants (English version coming up) (pdf)

On Saturday 25th of March 2006 the Running RioT Training Day in Amsterdam. Arm yourself against getting arrested, being interrogated and other forms of repression and practice in defending yourself and your fellow activists

*This website is under construction and therefore not yet complete*