Compañeros of Huitepec Continue to Be Held Hostage and Threatened by Government Authorities

By The Good Government Council
Central Heart of the Zapatistas in Front of the World

November 15, 2006

TOPIC: DENOUNCEMEMT

TO PUBLIC OPINION
TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS
TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETIES

The Good Government Council (JGB in its Spanish Initials), “Central Heart of the Zapatistas in Front of the World,” with headquarters in Oventik, Caracol number 2, Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.

With this denouncement we are making public knowledge of the following:

As the Good Government Council of this region, we publicly denounce that our comrades in the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in the community of Huitepec Ocotal of Section 2, municipality of San Cristobal de Las Casas, continue to be held hostage and threatened by government authorities.

On October 30th of this year, representatives of the Republic’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) arrived in the community of Huitepec Ocotal in a white truck asking for Juan and Pedro, the names that our EZLN comrades gave when they were detained by municipal and sectoral police who were accompanied by the Attorney’s office of Federal Environmental Protection on September 8th this year, after claiming a piece of land that belongs to them ancestrally.

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