NZ Protest: The Battery and Detention of Sam Buchanan
New Zealand | 26.07.2001 03:51
New Zealanders of every walk of life protest the unlawful battery and detention of journalist Sam Buchanan outside Italian Embassy in Auckland today. Buchanan is being held
on trumped up charges in a prison outside Genoa.
on trumped up charges in a prison outside Genoa.
Protest: NZ Italian Embassy, Auckland 26 July 2001
New Zealander's march to the Italian Embassy in Auckland
to protest the unlawful battery and detention - without
redress to rights - of NZ journalist Sam Buchanan in Genoa.
Sam Buchanan is semi-blind and is being held incommunicado
in prison outside Genoa with fellow Global Social Forum
activists from Australia, Britain Canada and Ireland.
He was severely beaten along with a group of 92 people
in a Genoese school offered by the Italian authorities
to the Global Social Forum, an umbrella group for some
900 international groups protesting debt, poverty and
global apartheid of the rich G7 countries.
New Zealand strongly protests the maltreatment of Buchanan
and demands his release NOW.
Buchanan is an engineer and journalist who was sub-editor
of Capital City Newspapers and contract journalist for the
community paper City Voice. He was also a parliamentary
candidate in 1993.
New Zealand
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26.07.2001 04:56
He was a political canditate in that he stood as a candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party, a joke party used as a vehicle to make fun of electoral politics.
Also his right eye was injured when he was hit in the face by a police baton in 1992.
lyn