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Action at a critical moment of Central America's struggle for genuine democracy. Letters needed the first few days of February! Cut & Paste and mail the letter in Spanish below. Translation here.
3 de Febrero de 2008 Elías Antonio Saca René Figueroa Dr. Agustín García Calderón Lic. Félix Garrid Safie Estimados Señores: Pienso que no puede acusárseles de terroristas a quienes hacen uso de sus legítimos derechos de manifestación, opinión y expresión. Son miembros de organizaciones sociales que protestan por el clima de impunidad y por el alto costo de la vida en El Salvador, y nos preocupa que se les trate como criminales. Esto no coincide ni con la Constitución Política de El Salvador ni con el sentido y letra de los Acuerdos de Paz de 1992. No es así como se construye una democracia que le brinde oportunidad a toda la población. Me parece fundamental insistir que se les respeten plenamente sus derechos humanos a estos trece ciudadanos, especialmente los relativos a la libertad, la seguridad, la integridad y la dignidad. Y pedimos que los cargos de terrorismo les sean retirados y que el procedimiento penal sea archivado definitivamente. Atentamente, your Name and Address
Mail it to the following name and address with a 90 cent airmail stamp. Lic. Félix Garrid Safie Casa Presidencial Avda Manuel Manrique Araujo 5500 San Salvador, EL SALVADOR
======================= January 2008 action - still viable! Action for Khaled el-Masri, a 43-year-old German of Lebanese origin, who was arrested and unlawfully detained while on a trip to Macedonia in December 2003. He was initially detained and interrogated by Macedonian officials for 23 days, then handed to U.S. agents and secretly flown via Iraq to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. program of "rendition." He was held in a U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan for five months, during which time he was allegedly ill-treated and half-starved.
He was then flown to an as-yet-unidentified location in the Balkans, and driven to the Albanian border, after the U.S. authorities apparently realized they had the wrong man. The Albanian authorities arranged his flight back to Germany.
Send a message to Gordana Jankulovska, newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia, here.
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