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July 29, 2010
The 27-year-old Mapuche Pascual Pichún Collonao has been sitting in the public prison Traiguén (IX. Region) in Chile since February 26, 2010. He, along with his brother Rafael, allegedly set a truck on fire during a Mapuche demonstration in 2002. After an exceptionally long pre-trial custody of 294 days, the brothers were each sentenced to five years imprisonment in addition to a fine. After fierce protests, the prison sentence was changed to a suspended sentence, and the brothers were released shortly thereafter. When in November of 2003 the proceedings against them were resumed and a warrant of arrest reissued, Pascual and Rafael went into hiding. Rafael was discovered and was arrested on July 21, 2005. Pascual fled to Argentina and dedicated himself to fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples. He was rearrested during a visit to his family in Temuco, Chile at the end of February 2010. For his family, the experience is similar to that of many other Mapuche families whose members are engaged in the fight for the rights of their people.
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June 23, 2010
The Indonesian government is planning to implement, in the south-east of the province of Papua, an enormous agricultural project – at the expense of the indigenous peoples. This area has for centuries belonged to the Papuans, the original inhabitants of the province of the same name. The huge project would result in the Papuans being dispossessed, displaced, culturally uprooted and marginalised. However, the project is still in its early stages and can still be stopped. Therefore we are urging you, as quickly as possible, to support our appeal to the UN High Commissioner.
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June 23, 2010
The military junta of Burma is planning to build more than 30 hydro-electric power dams. This project will have horrendous consequences for the ethnic minority groups in the country. They will be driven out from their homelands, will be torn apart from their cultural roots and will receive hardly any compensation for their loss. At the moment ten thousand members of the Kachin tribes are threatened with forced migration. Please call upon the EU’s special representative for Burma (officially Myanmar), Pero Fassino, to demand a halt to all new forced migrations and adequate compensation for those who have already been forced from their homelands.
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June 23, 2010
One year after the bloody clashes, resulting in 34 dead and more than 200 seriously injured, between the police and the indigenous people of the northern Peruvian area of the Amazon basin near the small town of Bagua, Alberto Pizango, the president of the Peruvian Indigenous peoples Organisation AIDESEP, returned from exile. Now he is to be put on trial. He is being accused of being responsible for the massacre. The trial is pending. Please appeal to the Peruvian Ambassador, S.E. Herrn José Luis Pérez Sánchez-Cerro, The Peruvian Minister for Justice Dr Victor Garcia Toma and the President of the Peruvian Congress Luis Alva Castro, to ensure a fair trial for Albert Pizango and the ratification of the law on consultations.
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June 07, 2010
Semuel Yaru and Luther Wrait from West Papua were arrested in November 2009. They had raised the forbidden ‘Morning Star’ flag of West Papua in order to protest against the Indonesian occupation of the western part of the island of New Guinea. They are now faced with an unfair trial and many years in prison on the grounds of ‘undermining the authority of the state.’ Also, Markus Yenu, the leader of the ‘West Papua National Authority’, the independence movement for the native people in Manokwari, was arrested twice within a few days at the end of April 2010.
Please support our appeal to the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang for the immediate release of Semuel Yaru, Luther Wrait and Markus Yenu.
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May 15, 2010
On 9th May five Kurds (Ferzad Kemanger, Ferhad Wekili, Ali Heyderiyan, Mahdi Islamian and Schirin Elmholi) were executed in Iran. As a result there were protests in the areas inhabited mainly by Kurds. The protests turned into a general strike on 15th May 2010. Shops and businesses were closed in many towns, particularly in Mahabad, Seqiz, Kamyaran, Qurwe, Bane, Meriwan, Şino, Diwandere, Bokan, Nexede, Bicar, Mako and Sine. The Kurdish students boycotted lectures.
Please support our appeal to the Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, demanding a clear answer on the fate of the political prisoner Mahmoud Ghorbanpour.
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April 15, 2010
The nomadic people of the Hadzabe are under threat. In modern Tanzanian society their way of life is seen as sub-human and worthless – a view with disastrous consequences. Their traditional land is being distributed to farming and hunting tourism businesses, which encroach upon their land and so endanger their nomadic culture. Please support our appeal to Mizengo Pinda, the Prime Minister of Tanzania, to protect the Hadzabe.
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April 09, 2010
A Turkish court sentenced to three years imprisonment the very well-known Kurdish politician and human rights activist Leyla Zana on 8th April 2010 in Diyarbakir for "disseminating terrorist propaganda”. This is the punishment for Leyla Zana having emphasised at a conference in London in 2008 in part of her speech the role of the head of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, who is in prison, as "a figure with whom many Kurds in Turkey identify”. Ms. Zana and her lawyer were not present when the sentence was pronounced.
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February 01, 2010
The visa requirements for travel in the Schengen Zone fort he citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia have been lifted at the beginnign of 2010 upon the recomendation of the European Commision. Bosnian Serbs are able to benefit from this arrangement as they have dual citizenship. The same privilege has been enjoyed for years by Bosnian Croats. It is only the Bosnian Muslims who are not able to travel freely. As victims of the 1992-1995 genocide they are being punished twice over. Bosniaks who survived the massacres, deportations, rape and concentration camps are not even able to travel to the Hague for the trial of the Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic. The genocide on the Bosnian Muslims, the displacement of thousands of people and the accompanning ethnic division Bosnia and Herzegovina has been cemented subsequently through the European Union.
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February 12, 2010
The economic and housing policies of the Israeli government have had terrible effects on the nomadic Bedouins from the Negev Desert. Their land rights and rights to basic services, such as clean water, have not been recognized by the Israeli government. Please support our appeal to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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March 15, 2010
Please support our coalition of international organizations and the indiginous people on the Xingú River with the protest against the tenative appoval of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam project. This hydroelectric dam would be the third largest in the world and would also be the largest infastructure project of all time in the heart of the Amazon.
The goal of this letter is to show that the Brazilian government’s approval of this mega-project is a highly irresponsible and reckless act and that a wide coalition of indigenous peoples group and international human rights and environmental groups oppose that decision. We ask for your signature to stop this mega project in the ecologically and socioculturally sensitive Amazon region.
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January 29, 2010
The renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zisheng an advocate for the democratization of China has possibly died a violent death under mysterious circumstances. Please appeal to the Foreign Minister Westerwelle and the actual President of the Council of the European Union, the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratios for an explanation from the Chinese authorities in the case of Gao Zisheng.
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January 29, 2010
The Romany minority in Turkey sees itself increasingly exposed to hostility from the rest of Turkish society. The most recent incident resulting from the hostile atmosphere towards the Romanies in Turkey has been the devastation of the Romany estate in Selendi in the western province of Manisa by about 1000 people and the consequent resettlement of 74 Romanies. Please support our appeal to the EU representative in Ankara for closer involvement on behalf of the right of the Romanies in Turkey, so that their rights are respected.
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The peaceful religious community of the Bahá’í has for years been systematically discriminated and suppressed. Particularly since President Ahmadinejad took office the religious community which with more than 300,000 members is the largest religious minority in Iran has been faced with an increasing degree of harassment, infringement of rights, hate sermons and slanderous media reports.
On 14th May 2008 six members of the national coordination group of the Bahá’í were arrested and placed in the notorious Evin prison in Teheran. There they are threatened with years of imprisonment and torture – if that is the worst. For a newly planned "Apostasy Law” provides the death penalty for the renunciation of Islam.
Please appeal to the Iranian government to release all persons detained in custody on account of their religious affiliations and to stop the persecution of the Bahá’í!
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