Solidarity with Mexican political prisoners call for action

Call for a action day for the political prisoners of the Mag

Call for a action day for the political prisoners of the Magonist zapatist Alliance and a message to send to Mexican institutions to ask for the freedom of AMZ and mexican political prisoners.
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[05-02-2009] Call for a action day for the political prisoners of the Magonist zapatist Alliance

To the civil society organizations
To the peoples of the world
To the alternative media of dignified information
To all solidal and good-hearted people

On Saturday, January 31, at 6:00 p.m. a heavily armed commando unit of the Oaxaca state police went into the San Pedro Pochutla prison and took our indigenous comrade and political prisoner Abraham Ramírez Vásquez away in a white van with no license plates to an unknown address.

Abraham and two other indigenous men, Juventino and Noel García Cruz, have been held prisoner since January 15, 2005, under the direct orders of the murderer Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO). Our comrades’ crime was defending their forests and their traditional practices and customs.
For more than 4 years, the URO government has been unable to prove that they committed the crimes they are accused of, and accordingly, they have not been sentenced. Our comrades are members of the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Rights (CODEDI) of Santiago Xanica, a member organization of the Magonista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ), the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), and adherent to the Other Campaign.

It’s important to note that Abraham Ramírez is a man of deep libertarian and human convictions, which have motivated him more than once, even from inside the prison, to struggle against the prison authorities for prisoners’ rights.

During all these years, Abraham has stayed in contact and written letters encouraging the people of Oaxaca to resist and not to allow their dignity to be trampled on by the killer who misgoverns this state. Prison bars have not been able to silence his rebellious voice, and he and theother two comrades held prisoner with him have sent letters and greetings to several different events initiated by the Other Campaign.

Abraham is also directly involved in the organization of a popular kitchen inside the Pochutla prison due to the fact that the prisoners have no dining room in this prison. This activity has lead to harassment, hostility, and acts of aggression against him by prison authorities.
The man to be held responsible for these aggressions is the director of the penitentiary, Juan Noel Ramirez Medina, who directly followed the orders of URO.

Thanks to a call that Abraham claimed to do himself, sunday the 1st of February at twelve we were told that our comrade was in Miahuatlan jail, in Oaxaca. This jail is mostly full of prisoners connected to the narcotraffic. We know that some of these prisoners got order to harrass, molest and intimidate our comrade Abraham.

WE CALL:

We call to the people of Mexico, to the civil society organizations, to the peoples of the world, to all solidal and good-hearted people for the organization of a:

DAY OF INFORMATION AND SOLIDARITY FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE MAGONIST ZAPATIST ALLIANCE AND OF MEXICO

These days can be either counter-information days or action days for the pressing on public opinion: what to do is a choice of whom wants to solidarize with this struggle.

We ask you to call and write to the (bad) institutions asking for freedom for our comrades from AMZ: Abraham Ramirez Vasquez, Juventino GarciaCruz, Noel Garcia Cruz, writing down every name so that each of them knows that they are not alone, we are not alone and we struggle day afterday for their freedom.

? President FELIPE DE JESÚS CALDERÓN HINOJOSA Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, México DF Tel: +52 (55) 27891100 Fax: +52 (55) 52772376 felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx

? Lic. Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, State Attorney General ofproc@pgr.gob.mx, wmaster@pgr.gob.mx

? Lic. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Governor of the State of Oaxaca, gobernador@oaxaca.gob.mx, Fax. 01 (951) 51 65 966,51-60677/ fax: 51-63737/ cel: 0449515470377
? Lic. Evencio Nicolás Martínez Ramírez, State of Oaxaca Attorney, buzonciudadano@pgj.net, 01 951 5115174, 01 951 5115219

? PGR Oaxaca Delegation Fax : + 51 951 5019642

? United Nations High Commission for Human Rights tb-petitions@ohchr.org

? Representative in Mexico of the Office of the UN High Commission forHuman Rights oacnudh@hchr.org.mx

? Jina Hilani, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on HumanRights Defenders manstett.hchr@unog.ch

? Sr. Santiago Cantón, Executive Secretary of the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, cidhoea@oas.org

? Dr. José Luis Soberanes Fernández President of CNDH Periférico Sur 3469, Col. San Jerónimo Lídice, 10200, México, D.F. Tel: 631 00 40, 6 81 81 25 Fax: 56 81 84 90 Lada sin costo: 01 800 00 869 correo@fmdh.cndh.org.mx

? Lic. Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, Attorney General of Republic Av. Paseo de la Reforma #211-213 Col. Cuauhtémoc, Delegación Cuauhtémoc. MéxicoD.F., C.P. 06500
Emails to: http://www.pgr.gob.mx/index.asp

? Comisionado especial del Órgano Desconcentrado de la Prevención y Readaptación Social de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública Tel y fax: conmutador 52 42 81 00, ext: 18 625, 18 699, 18630, 18941 Londres 102, Piso 6.5, Col. Juárez, 06600, México, DF.

We also inform you that, for this day of dignity and freedom, we will make a press conference and a sit-in next TUESDAY 10TH OF FEBRUARY at twelve o'clock by the National Commission for Human Rights, Periferico Sud n.3469, col. San Jeronomo Lidice (from metro station Miguel Angel Quevedo you take the bus) in order to ask that this institution publicly says something on the situation of our comrade Abraham and the other two Xanica political prisoners.
We demand public resignation of the director of the Pochutla penitentiary, Juan Noel Ramirez Medina, and freedom for AMZ and all Mexican political prisoners.

Respectfully yours:
Xanica Committee for the Defence of Indigenous Rights (CODEDI - Xanica)
Indigenous Organizations for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO)
Autonomous Magonist Collective (CAMA)
Magonist Zapatist Allience (AMZ)

FREEDOM FOR XANICA POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FREEDOM FOR ATENCO POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FREEDOM FOR CHIAPAS POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FREEDOM FOR 2ND OF OCTOBER IN MEXICO CITY POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS IN MEXICO AND THE WORLD!

Proposal for a message, from CODEDI-XANICA
send a copy of your message also to: codedi98@yahoo.com.mx

We heard the news of the violation of human rights by the illegitimate government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz towards members and communities of the Xanica Committee for the Defence of Indigenous Rights (Comité por la Defensa de los Derechos Indígenas de Santiago Xanica , CODEDI – XANICA) through menaces, persecutions and isolation, unjustified relocations of the prisoners and aggressions, mostly towards:
Abraham Ramírez Vásquez, Noel García Cruz y Juventino García Cruz
political prisoners since january 2005.
We strongly reccomend that Abraham Ramírez Vásquez moves back to Pochutla penitentiary, because he has the right to see his family and he is not a dangerous criminal but a political prisoner.
We also think that the director of Pochutla penitentiary, Juan Noel Ramírez Medina, must be removed from his office being a direct actor of this human rights violation, carried out towards Abraham Ramírez Vásquez, Noel García Cruz e Juventino García Cruz.
We are worried about this situation, it represents an escalation of violence towards all members of CODEDI – XANICA.
Hoping that this attacks to human rights of indigenous people of Xanica stop, and that this state of impunity comes to an end, we will keep attention to every future event.
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