From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Peru: Human rights news
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:18:54 GMT

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** Topic: Human Rights News **
** Written 10:22 am  Apr 13, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Human Rights News

/* Written  9:18 pm  Apr 12, 1992 by jkawell in cdp:reg.peru */
THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH OF SOME OF THE HUMAN
RIGHTS  AND GENERAL NEWS SENT TO US FROM APRODEH, A HUMAN RIGHTS
GROUP IN LIMA, ON FRIDAY, APRIL 10.  THE FULL TEXT IN SPANISH OF
THESE REPORTS IS CONTAINED IN CONFERENCE ITEMS IMMEDIATELY
FOLLOWING:

HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS:
* On Thursday, the Fujimori government announced that a group of
political leaders that had been under arrest since sunday would be
freed.  By late Friday, no releases had been confirmed, although
APRA party leader Jorge Del Castillo made a call to a Lima radio
station.

* The whereabouts of union leaders arrested early in the week are
still unknown; as are the whereabouts of Congressional employees
arrested on April 8.  Also still detained or disappeared are six
lawyers said to be members of the Association of Democratic
Lawyers, a group accused of being a front group for Sendero
Luminoso.

* In Lima, the National Association of Centers, which represents
non-governmental organizations,  that police had visited an un-
named NGO  demanding information about the group's financial
sources, and that  some of the employees of another NGO have
reported being under police surveillance.

The APRODEH report adds: "To this situation is added the activity
of Sendero Luminoso, with its top-down and repressive practice,
which has threatened the director of a Lima NGO with death for the
second time.

"In the forum of international public opinion, APRODEH denounces
the systematic pressures against the non-governmental
organizations, and calls on all international institutions to stay
alert for any possible actions against our organizations."

* In Puno, the regional prefect [an official appointed by the LIma
government] announced the firing of the director of the government-
funded Special Agricultural Development Project, PAMPAS and said
the military would take charge of the project facilities.

The prefect also announced that 150 other organizations in Puno,
Moquegua, Tacna would be "intervened" by the government.

* GENERAL NEWS:
A majority of members of both houses of Peru's congress met on
Thursday, declared the presidency legally vacant, and unanimously
named the second vice president, Carlos Garcia, as the
constitutional president of Peru. [Note: Peru has two national vice
presidents, the first vice president was out of the country at the
time of the coup.]

In a telephone call from a secret location to a Lima newspaper,
former Peruvian President Alan Garcia denounced Fujimori's actions
and called the coup "an act of desperation in the face of the
failure of the neo-liberal economic model"  Garcia is in hiding
after escaping from a military search of his Lima home on Sunday.
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