[news] Political Prisoners in Mexico

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The criminalization of social protest is filling [Mexico's] jails and prisons with political prisoners. 214 protestors were arrested in the crackdown at Atenco last May 3rd and 4th...Another 140 citizens were beaten, gassed, and arrested in Oaxaca on November 25th by the Federal Preventative Police to break up the seven month-long occupation of the city's old colonial center by the Oaxaca Popular Peoples' Assembly (APPO) and striking teachers...

  


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