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Human RightsCovering paramilitary actions, political prisoners, human rights alerts, and related issues. Facing Escalating Protests, Chiapas Frees 30 Political PrisonersKristin Bricker Zacario Hernandez released from prisonMarch 25, 2008 By Loren Guerriero In Chiapas, the incidence of incarcerated social fighters is astounding. In some cases, political enemies bribe legal officials and judges to incarcerate social fighters. In others, the government targets leaders of social movements. Some political prisoners report that they were tortured during interrogation, forcing them into self-incrimination. Others report that they were not provided with a translator and thus couldn’t defend themselves. All report some form of fabricated charges and lack of due process in court. Afterwards many political prisoners are physically and psychologically abused by prison guards and administrators. Their contact to the outside world is unlawfully restricted, preventing them from communicating with friends and family. Many file petitions for case revisions, but frequently the petitions are either delayed for long periods of time, or more often, arbitrarily denied. Cesare Batistti and the 40 years of ‘68By Leila Saraiva It was Thursday, visiting day in the Federal Police Station of Brasilia. The place doesn’t inspire much confidence. Police enter and leave with their distinguished expressions and uniforms. We wait our turn. 3:00PM. We go in with two bags full with 4 packets of cookies, 4 apples, 4 guayabas, 4 pears, several bottles of juice, cigarettes, 2 books, and 5 sheets of loose-leaf paper. All of this is to last until next Thursday. We enter the room where we will meet the very reason we are here. On the other side of the glass is Cesare Batisti. Cesare is 53 years old and has been detained in Brasilia for 10 months. He has spent a good part of his life in hiding. All of this because, like us, he strives for a better world. Violations of Zapatista Autonomy: Experiences on CAPISE’s Brigade 53By Alyne dos Santos Goncalves and Cassio Brancaleone On January 1, 2006, the Zapatistas proposed an initiative to tour all of Mexico in order to articulate broad networks of collaboration and solidarity among localized social movements “from the grassroots and the left”, putting into practice two central points of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of June 2005. The tour around different Mexican states was baptized as “The Other Campaign,” a counter-reference to the presidential campaign that was beginning at that time. The objective of The Other Campaign wasn’t, however, to make electoral promises, but rather to listen to different voices of social and popular movements at the margin of the system, whose struggles necessarily leave them outside the framework of political parties and institutions. This first phase meant learning about other ways of struggling against the oppression of the social, economic and political system imposed from above. Amenaza de Muerte Contra Consejara de la APPO Nancy Mota Figueroaenlace.limeddh@gmail.com, solicita su intervención urgente ante la intimidación, amenaza de muerte y agresión física a consejera de la APPO, por el sector estudiantil de la Asamblea Popular de los Pue 3 cases of social movement repression in OctoberThese cases we are going to talk about are just three of many cases of repression that are taking place all over the world. Chiapas Human Rights Abuses Denunciations 200705.10.07 |
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