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title: Challenge the rulings!
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# Purpose

- Understanding of ways how criminalization of solidarity operates through state and judicial practices
- Sharpening personal lenses for recognition of state and police violence
- Reading legal texts with confidence and disrupting the inaccessibility of the legal language 

# Method: Discussion

...(in a human rights organization, in a classroom, at a coffee shop, round table, workshop, conference...) based on the analysis of the court ruling

Time: 90 minutes and possibly more 

# Materials:

- Court ruling
- [Aliens Act](https://www.zakon.hr/z/142/Zakon-o-strancima)
- [Are You Syrious reaction at the European Parliament](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=421640735307159)  

# Guiding Questions for Analysis:

## Questions of Comprehension: 

- What are the facts entailed in this ruling? 
- How this ruling relates to the Aliens Act and its provision on criminalization of solidarity? 
- What is hidden in the ruling? What can we not read here? (personal motivation of Dragan i.e.)

## Critical Questions

- Why the Aliens Act does not protect Dragan? What kind of message are the courts delivering with this ruling? 
- How does criminalization of solidarity look like in this particular case? What are the consequences Dragan and Are you Syrious must bare? 
- Why is criminalization of solidarity harmful broadly and not just for Dragan and Are You Syrious? 
- What are the ways to stand against such criminalization? 
- What are the ways that more groups and individuals act similarly to Dragan and support migrants on their perilous journeys?