Mexico, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) Mexican Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz, for months demanded by the populace to step down for violent repression, recognized on Monday that some 80 percent of the 214 people arrested November 25 have no relation to the social movement.The authorities of Oaxaca admitted that at least eight of those people were formally sent to prison, although their names were not in the Federal Preventive Police official report, and they were not involved in the events.
Attorneys for the prisoners and human rights representatives declared this is a situation of glaring violation of the right to freedom, typifying the arbitrary arrests and irregular trials.
They said there are testimonies from every case of the terror lived by the accused and their relatives, while only three people have been freed after paying some $10,000 for bail.
Faced with the large number of reports of violations of individual rights, human rights observers from Spain, France, Germany, and other countries will pay a working visit to Oaxaca to organize a comprehensive mission to investigate the human rights violations in that Mexican state.
Opposition PRD (Democratic Revolution) and governing PAN (National Action) parties scheduled a meeting for Monday to continue discussing the elimination of powers in Oaxaca and dismissal of Governor Ulises Ruiz.
PRD president Leonel Cota announced that the meeting will be used to analyze the ungovernability in that state, and that they agreed to overlook party differences and gain a majority in the Senate to meet the demand of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca for Ruiz removal.
Otherwise, Cota said, anything that happens in Oaxaca will be the federal government s responsibility, especially that of PAN.
