Editing Indymedia (section)

===Europe===

At the [[27th G8 summit|2001 G8 summit]] in [[Genoa]], Italian police assaulted Indymedia journalists at the Armando Diaz School where Indymedia had set up a temporary office and radio station. Twenty-nine police officers were indicted for beating people, planting evidence and wrongful arrest during the night-time raid. Thirteen were convicted.<ref>{{cite news  | title = Campaigners fear Italy G8 trouble  | work = BBC News  | date = December 5, 2008  | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7767412.stm  | access-date = June 1, 2009  | archive-date = December 8, 2008  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081208071658/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7767412.stm  | url-status = live  }}</ref>

In the aftermath of the [[2017 G20 Hamburg summit]] protests, the German [[Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community]] banned a chapter of the network called Linksunten. This had been set up in 2008, in southwestern Germany.{{r|"NYT17"}} The ministry described the network as "the central communications platform among far-left extremists prone to violence" and stated that it was used to spread information about violent protest tactics.{{r|"BBC2017"}} German [[internet service provider]]s were ordered to block communication to the website, on which police were referred to as "pigs" and "murderers" and instructions for making [[Molotov cocktails]] could be found.{{r|"NYT17"}}{{r|"BBC2017"}} The German police also raided the home addresses of several activists in the [[Baden-Württemberg]] region, seizing computers and weapons.{{r|"BBC2017"}}