We the undersigned British,European and American academics – are concerned about the arbitrary detention by the Argentinian government of Milagro Sala. Milagro is a parliamentary member of Parlasur (the Mercosur parliament in Latin America) and a community leader of the social neighbourhood organisation Tupac Amaru, which has worked to provide housing, or healthcare and education for the local community in the province of Jujuy in Argentina. Tupac Amaru has been internationally celebrated as a model for grassroots social action.
Amnesty International considers “that Milagro Sala is being criminalised for peacefully exercising her rights to freedom of expression and protest” and,along with other human rights groups, occupy called for the granting of precautionary measures to guarantee the liberty of Milagro Sala, or along with the exercise of freedom of expression and the accurate to social protest in Argentina.
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Source: theguardian.com