[Indigsol] Fwd: Ontario's duty to ensure rights are upheld in police response to Indigenous protests November 12, 2008

[Ben Powless]

muy interesante.

From: Kim Elliott <kim at rabble.caTo: Kim Elliott <kim at rabble.caSubject:
AI-CoGroup Ontario's duty to ensure rights are upheld inpolice
response to Indigenous protestsDate: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:40:39 -0800

** please circulate widely **
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER:Ontario's duty
to ensure rights are upheld in police response to Indigenous protests
November 12, 2008
Ontario's duty to ensure rights are upheld in police response to
Indigenous protests
Open letter to the Honourable Rick Bartolucci, Minister of Community
Safety and Correctional Services
Dear Minister:
Amnesty International Canada is reiterating its call for the Province
of Ontario to immediately: Publicly affirm its support for the Ontario
Provincial Police (OPP) Framework for Police Preparedness for
Aboriginal Critical Incidents and commit to ensuring that officers are
held accountable for any breaches of this Framework.
Work with Indigenous peoples' organizations to establish a timetable
and process for an independent evaluation of the OPP Framework and
appropriate codification of the Framework in provincial laws and
policies.
In light of very serious concerns that have been raised over the OPP
response to land rights protests at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on
June 28-29, 2007 and April 21-28, 2008, Amnesty International is also
urging the Province of Ontario to establish an independent, impartial
probe into OPP actions on those dates and to make the findings of such
an investigation public.
TO READ THE LETTER, GO TO:
http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=4498&c=Resource+Centre+News



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