| versión para imprimir - envía este articulo por e-mail |
The city remains mobilized against repression.
Por coyote -
Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002 at 11:16 PM
Buenos Aires, Argentina Saturday, Oct. 26 The city remains mobilized against repression.
This morning Greenpeace Argentina was holding a protest against a law recently passed allowing storage of international nuclear wastes in Argentina. The protest, held in front of the National Congress, had just begun when police moved in, arrested thirty activists and assaulted supporters and media workers.
The police station the activists were held in was soon picketed by members of Popular Assemblies, demanding their immediate release.
As one of the protestors, a member of a Popular Assembly, was being transfered to Court, an attempt was made to prevent the van from leaving, which resulted in several more arrests. the police attacked the thirty activists assembled, forcing them away from the station, mobilizing around eighty officers for the task.
Around 3 p,m., more Assemblies began to gather in the area, demanding an end to repression and the release of the prisoners. The original GreenPeace activists were soon released, and the Assembly members decided to remain in Avenida Entre Ríos, where the police soon gathered two blocks from the demonstration. The police attempted to forceably prevent the MTL ( Movimiento Territorial de Liberación) from joining the demonstration, and began using rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd, which numbered around a hundred, dispite rain.
Many of the demonstrators saught shelter in the house of the Argentina-Cuba Friendship organization, which was fired on by the police.
Around ten p.m., activists returned to the police station to await the prisoners as they were released, which occured around eleven.
In all, this spontanious demonstration for the freedom of arrested activists was attacked more than five times in a incredable police operation, part of a campaign of criminalization of social protests organized by the national government.