Protest in BCN against the multiple acts of repression and criminalization of activists in Mexico.
In the current situation in Mexico where the number of femicides and disappearances is increasing alarmingly, the Mexican government has begun (or reactivated) a campaign of criminalization in response to the movement of women and human rights defenders, (who have and will continue to dedicate their lives to the pursuit of justice despite the repression), the state along with the hegemonic media bombard with hate speech that are having as a consequence that the numbers of femicides and disappearances are increasing.
This is how we see that after two years of the creation of the Okupa Cuba Monumenta Viva, a ridiculous mega-operation is mounted for its eviction with about 1000 police elements. Acting with total impunity they take three young activists in a military tank, which has not been seen even in operations against drug trafficking and not to imagine when prosecuting hit men and rapists, these young women are now political prisoners in Santa Marta. Where are these police when women are murdered and disappear every day? Why did they process so quickly the compañeras when there are thousands of cases of forced disappearances, rapes and femicides that have been waiting for years for answers and end up being archived?
Another example: what happened on April 3rd at the sit-in at the prosecutor’s office in Chimalhuacan (Edo. Mex.) where protesters and children were demanding the release of a mother who is persecuted and harassed for denouncing the police officer who sexually assaulted her daughter, and whom they had kidnapped and detained arbitrarily, while the protesters demanded her freedom, a deployment of 300 police officers threatened them and beat them brutally.
And these repressions and abuses of power have been replicated in other states of the republic, mainly in the states where more women are murdered and the only way they have found to try to be heard and demand justice is to go out and protest that they look for their disappeared women, that the femicides do not go unpunished, that there is no more murdered women, no more disappeared women.
That is why we reaffirm the slogan “the police do not take care of me, my friends take care of me.”
The police and the state threaten, persecute and torture.
#NO TO THE REPRESSION OF THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT
#FREEDOM AND INTEGRITY FOR ACTIVISTS
#NO TO THE PERSECUTION AND CRIMINALIZATION OF ACTIVISTS
#THE STATE AND POLICE TORTURE AND MURDER
#MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TORTURES WOMEN
#MEXICO FEMINICIDAL
#EDO MEX FEMINICIDA
#OKUPA CUBA
#CHIMALHUACAN
#MORELOS
#OTOMI COMMUNITY CDMX
#IZCALLI
#TLAXCALA
#AGASCALIENTES
#NUEVO LEON
#QUERETARO
#NO TO LYNCHING OF FEMINISTS
#KENIA HERNANDEZ
Machine-assisted translation of the following post from the Barcelona Indymedia website: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/534173
From: øbin.net