Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

A Letter From The Catalan Four: Still Detained In Oaxaca, threatened & beaten!

Joe Cancer | 13.08.2007 20:58 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

This letter was received from the four Catalan detainees still incarcerated in Mexico DF.
First is the rough English translation, then the original Spanish. At the bottom is a list of authorities you can write to in order to assist in their release.
A previous article asked for no one to demonstrate, but to write to demand release:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

A Letter to gather support

We are the four Catalans, Ariadna Grandson, journalist and anthropologist, Nuria Morelló, anthropologist and historian, Ramon Sesén, professor of computer science and Laia Serra, lawyer.

At 9:30pm on the night 5 August, 2007, we were assaulted by the paramilitary police while walking through the historical center of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico.

They loaded us into a vehicle and transferred us bent over [in stress position] and covered with a canvas for 15 minutes, they imprisoned us and locked us up for one hour in a darkroom where we received insults, blows, threats and sexual aggression to one of us took place, they forced to us to be with hands on the head or made to kneel [more stress positions], in addition they robbed our property, money and documentation [passports, immigration cards], then immediately transferred us to the migratory instances alleging we were undocumented [illegal] foreigners.

They have us locked up in an immigration detention centre in the City of Mexico DF, in spite of our protest.

On 7 August the Spanish Consulate issued us new passports but we did not receive them. We have been open with all the facts on which we have been victims and of all external advising.

We demanded our immediate release and the return of all our property, as well as that what purifies the responsibilities of the pertinent authorities.

We requested your support and denounce this charges against us.

Your support is our force.

Ariadna Nieto, Laia Serra, Nuria Morelló y Ramón Sesén
Enviar



Carta para recoger firmas

Somos cuatro catalanes, Ariadna Nieto, periodista y antropóloga, Nuria
Morelló, antropóloga e historiadora, Ramón Sesén, profesor de
informática y Laia Serra, abogada. A las 9:30 de la noche del día 5 de
agosto de 2007 fuimos asaltados por elementos parapoliciales cuando
paseábamos por el centro histórico de la ciudad de Oaxaca, México. Estos
nos cargaron en un vehículo y nos trasladaron agachados y tapados con
una lona hasta un cuartel, allí nos encapucharon y nos tuvieron
encerrados una hora en un cuarto oscuro donde recibimos insultos,
golpes, amenazas y se produjo una agresión sexual a una compañera, nos
obligaron a estar con las manos en la cabeza o arrodillados, además nos
robaron las pertenencias, el dinero y la documentación, enseguida nos
trasladaron a las instancias migratorias alegando nuestra situación de
extranjeros indocumentados.

Nos tienen encerrados en un centro de internamiento de extranjeros de la
Ciudad de México, pese a nuestra manifiesta y acreditada instancia penal.

Desde el día 7 de agosto el cónsul español expidió unos nuevos
pasaportes y ni siquiera nos los han entregado. Hemos estado privados de
toda la información sobre los hechos de los que hemos sido víctimas y de
todo asesoramiento externo.

Exigimos nuestra inmediata puesta en libertad y que se nos devuelvan
nuestras pertenencias, así como que se depuren las responsabilidades de
las autoridades pertinentes.

Os pedimos vuestro apoyo, difusión y denuncia de nuestro caso.

Vuestro apoyo es nuestra fuerza.

Ariadna Nieto, Laia Serra, Nuria Morelló y Ramón Sesén
Enviar la firma a :  ellokal@pangea.org
 http://chiapas.pangea.org

Consulado de México en Barcelona:
Paseo de la Bonanova 55, fax: 932009206, teléfono: 932011822
email:  consulmex@consulmex-barcelona.net

Embajada de México en España:
 embamex@embamex.es

Embajada de España en México
Cancillería: Dirección: Galileo, 114 (esq. Horacio) Colonia
Polanco.-11550 México, D.F. Teléf.: (52.55.5) 282 29 74, 282 22 71, 282
24 59, 282 27 63 y 282 29 82.
Fax: 282 13 02 y 282 15 20.
Email:  embespmx@correo.mae.es

Secretario de Estado de méxico:
 secretario@segob.gob.mx

Instituto Nacional de Migración:
Cecilia Romero Castillo. Comisionada
53 87 24 98
53 87 24 00
Ext. 18022,
18023 y 18024
 cromero@inami.gob.mx

Presidente Comisión Asuntos Exteriores del Congreso de los Diputados:
Josep Antoni Duràn i Lleida
email:  jaduran@diputado.congreso.es


Enviad copia a:
Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Senado de México
 ribarra@senado.gob.mx

Previous articles in chronological order:

Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video
(Initial information received for this article is now known to be incorrect due to confusion because of the tense situation).

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377709.html

Human Rights League Condemns Oaxaca Detentions

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377968.html

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377987.html

"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

They still remain incarcerated. We urge as many as possible to write to demand their release. But please do not protest as this will in no way help their situation.

Joe Cancer

Comments

Display the following comment

  1. Further description of the Catalan Four's experience — Joe Cancer
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech