Thursday, March 20, 2008

Mexico: Oaxaca hosts conference on political prisoners

From the 14 to the 16 of March a Forum to give a voice to political prisoners and spread awareness throughout the country took place in the city of Oaxaca.

During this forum we listened to the denunciations and testimonies of cases such as Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco where the injustice and the violence of the State manifest, whilst unjustly holding dozens of compañer@s prisoner.

This forum took place in the street, where any passerby could pause to watch, to listen, or understand the situation of the political prisoners, despite constant police surveillance.
The faces of different political prisoners from Oaxaca were printed on pages exhibited in this forum. “It is necessary to show the faces of our prisoners so that they are not only a number within the prison system, behind them there is a complete history” said a compañera from VOCAL.

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