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A Letter From The Catalan Four: Still Detained In Oaxaca, threatened & beaten!

Joe Cancer | 13.08.2007 21:58 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

This letter was received from the four Catalan detainees still incarcerated in Mexico DF.
First is the rough English translation, then the original Spanish. At the bottom is a list of authorities you can write to in order to assist in their release.
A previous article asked for no one to demonstrate, but to write to demand release:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

A Letter to gather support

We are the four Catalans, Ariadna Grandson, journalist and anthropologist, Nuria Morelló, anthropologist and historian, Ramon Sesén, professor of computer science and Laia Serra, lawyer.

At 9:30pm on the night 5 August, 2007, we were assaulted by the paramilitary police while walking through the historical center of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico.

They loaded us into a vehicle and transferred us bent over [in stress position] and covered with a canvas for 15 minutes, they imprisoned us and locked us up for one hour in a darkroom where we received insults, blows, threats and sexual aggression to one of us took place, they forced to us to be with hands on the head or made to kneel [more stress positions], in addition they robbed our property, money and documentation [passports, immigration cards], then immediately transferred us to the migratory instances alleging we were undocumented [illegal] foreigners.

They have us locked up in an immigration detention centre in the City of Mexico DF, in spite of our protest.

On 7 August the Spanish Consulate issued us new passports but we did not receive them. We have been open with all the facts on which we have been victims and of all external advising.

We demanded our immediate release and the return of all our property, as well as that what purifies the responsibilities of the pertinent authorities.

We requested your support and denounce this charges against us.

Your support is our force.

Ariadna Nieto, Laia Serra, Nuria Morelló y Ramón Sesén
Enviar



Carta para recoger firmas

Somos cuatro catalanes, Ariadna Nieto, periodista y antropóloga, Nuria
Morelló, antropóloga e historiadora, Ramón Sesén, profesor de
informática y Laia Serra, abogada. A las 9:30 de la noche del día 5 de
agosto de 2007 fuimos asaltados por elementos parapoliciales cuando
paseábamos por el centro histórico de la ciudad de Oaxaca, México. Estos
nos cargaron en un vehículo y nos trasladaron agachados y tapados con
una lona hasta un cuartel, allí nos encapucharon y nos tuvieron
encerrados una hora en un cuarto oscuro donde recibimos insultos,
golpes, amenazas y se produjo una agresión sexual a una compañera, nos
obligaron a estar con las manos en la cabeza o arrodillados, además nos
robaron las pertenencias, el dinero y la documentación, enseguida nos
trasladaron a las instancias migratorias alegando nuestra situación de
extranjeros indocumentados.

Nos tienen encerrados en un centro de internamiento de extranjeros de la
Ciudad de México, pese a nuestra manifiesta y acreditada instancia penal.

Desde el día 7 de agosto el cónsul español expidió unos nuevos
pasaportes y ni siquiera nos los han entregado. Hemos estado privados de
toda la información sobre los hechos de los que hemos sido víctimas y de
todo asesoramiento externo.

Exigimos nuestra inmediata puesta en libertad y que se nos devuelvan
nuestras pertenencias, así como que se depuren las responsabilidades de
las autoridades pertinentes.

Os pedimos vuestro apoyo, difusión y denuncia de nuestro caso.

Vuestro apoyo es nuestra fuerza.

Ariadna Nieto, Laia Serra, Nuria Morelló y Ramón Sesén
Enviar la firma a :  ellokal@pangea.org
 http://chiapas.pangea.org

Consulado de México en Barcelona:
Paseo de la Bonanova 55, fax: 932009206, teléfono: 932011822
email:  consulmex@consulmex-barcelona.net

Embajada de México en España:
 embamex@embamex.es

Embajada de España en México
Cancillería: Dirección: Galileo, 114 (esq. Horacio) Colonia
Polanco.-11550 México, D.F. Teléf.: (52.55.5) 282 29 74, 282 22 71, 282
24 59, 282 27 63 y 282 29 82.
Fax: 282 13 02 y 282 15 20.
Email:  embespmx@correo.mae.es

Secretario de Estado de méxico:
 secretario@segob.gob.mx

Instituto Nacional de Migración:
Cecilia Romero Castillo. Comisionada
53 87 24 98
53 87 24 00
Ext. 18022,
18023 y 18024
 cromero@inami.gob.mx

Presidente Comisión Asuntos Exteriores del Congreso de los Diputados:
Josep Antoni Duràn i Lleida
email:  jaduran@diputado.congreso.es


Enviad copia a:
Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Senado de México
 ribarra@senado.gob.mx

Previous articles in chronological order:

Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video
(Initial information received for this article is now known to be incorrect due to confusion because of the tense situation).

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377709.html

Human Rights League Condemns Oaxaca Detentions

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377968.html

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377987.html

"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

They still remain incarcerated. We urge as many as possible to write to demand their release. But please do not protest as this will in no way help their situation.

Joe Cancer

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