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Court revokes privative of freedom against miners
Tuesday, 18 of May of 2010

There were no majors explanations, the certain thing went that yesterday to 24 hours to have prevailed of freedom to two of the 15 miners who protested Thursday in Maripa the past, Sucre municipality, against the actions of the Caura Plan, the Court First of Control of City Bolivar threw back for the measurement.

Carolina Maffia
Photo Arming Rivas

The affected ones demand justice and answers of the Mibam
“Injustice”, thus was catalogued the sentence that Sunday received two from 15 miners, stopped in Maripa, and imputed by the Court First of Control of City Bolivar by the agavillamiento crimes, instigación to break the law, obstruction of public thoroughfare and resistance to the authority.

The pressure exerted by the miners so seems that it gave results, because past the 5:00 of afternoon of this Monday, tribunalicias sources revealed that miners Edgar Fuenmayor and Starki the Arevalos, deprived of their freedom by the Court First of Control, in charge of Nalsira Martinez, were lazy in freedom.

Both miners were lengthy in the police station of the Police of the state Bolivar in Coquitos in City Bolivar, of where he said himself would be transferred to the Beautiful jail of Vista, after the decision of the court of the cause.

The liberation of both miners did not stop causing surprise between friendly, relatives and close friends, especially when a change of privative decision of to size precautionary takes place of sudden way. For this Tuesday to the 8:00 in the morning the imputed ones will have to appear in the Palace of Justice.

More displeasure
In as much, the miners of the Paragua, whose shouting is to position Alfredo Villanueva, rejected the tribunalicias, police actions and military floods of maltratos, physical humiliations, aggressions and humiliations undertaken against the workers of gold.

Villanueva ratified that the human rights forced to them to those who unjustly were jailed, refusing them as much medical attention as communication with their relatives.

Between the prisoners, there were three hurt by pellets, that after two days it was Sunday when finally they received welfare medical attention, “already had infected the wounds”, declared Villanueva.

They request the same diligence
Villanueva demanded that with the same “diligence” as I act myself to penal process these miners, hopes makes the Office of the public prosecutor of the Public Ministry against registered the military and police excess in the population of Maripa.

“We are asking investigates the guilty military than it has happened in the Caura and other mining zones, because they (the military) were the people in charge to allow the access to those zones to work of illegal way the mining”, asserted east leader.

It said that although cannot guarantee the environmental destruction, “but we cannot either accept are implemented operative that does violence to the state of right and the human rights”. Also, for this Wednesday they will be in Caracas to demand to the general prosecutor, the defender to them of the Town and to the Subcommission of the Human rights of the Commission of Inner Policy of the National Assembly they investigate these events, insisting to that the same is made in situ. “We see with much preoccupation that is not guarded by the State of Right, and however commit brutales facts against a population”.

The multiple cases by violation of human rights have been lifted to the NGO Venezuelan Program of Education-Action in Human rights (It provides), according to informed Villanueva, that emphasized that the same pick up “the wild upsettings under the mantle of the Caura Plan”.

Aló Khan

Alfredo Villanueva remembered that the miners of the Paragua wait for by answers of the holder of the Mibam, Jose Khan, considering the document of 17 points presented/displayed to this one, and on which would pronounce themselves in a lapse of 20 days.

It shortened that to the date the holder of the ministry has not signaled smoke, forces reason why them to assume its defense, impelling its return to the protest. “This week minister Khan must sit down with us to give an answer us, otherwise he forces to us to return to the street”.

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