Human rights organizations “strongly” repudiated the police repression in the vicinity of CFK’s house

Human Rights organizations “strongly” repudiated this Saturday the repression of the Police of the City of Buenos Aires against the demonstrators in the vicinity of the house of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.Through a statement released by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the human rights organizations said: “The decision of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to fence the area to prevent the continuity of the demonstration of the people that is sustained for several days, he did nothing but increase the call in support of Cristina. As was done before, the response was repression.”

“We once again express our deep concern about the mechanisms of persecution of the vice president and about repressive acts such as those of today, which cannot be repeated. The people have the right to demonstrate and defend the ideas they choose in this democracy,” the entities remarked. The text bears the signature of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line; Relatives of the Disappeared and Detained for Political Reasons; H.I.J.O.S. Capital; Permanent Assembly for Human Rights; Permanent Assembly for Human Rights La Matanza; Asociación Buena Memoria, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales; Commission memory, truth and justice North Zone, Relatives and Companions of the 12 of the Holy Cross; Fundación Memoria Histórica y Social Argentina; Argentine League for Human Rights and the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights

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