Human Rights/UN Envoy’s Grim Warning Over Assange’s Life

November 8, 2019, EDITORIAL Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia)  https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/08/un-envoys-grim-warning-over-assanges-life/

A United Nations expert in torture diagnosis has in the past week issued a stark warning that Australian whistleblower Julian Assange is in danger of dying from extreme prison conditions in Britain.

It is testimony to the rank hypocrisy of British and American governments who lecture others around the world about democracy, human rights and international law.

One can only imagine the hysterical outcry among Western governments and media if somehow Assange was being detained in a Russian prison.

The 48-year-old Assange has been held in a maximum-security prison in London since April this year when he was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorean embassy. His arrest was itself a staggering breach of international law. Assange had been confined

BRICS, Hong Kong/China warns of countermeasures to US bill on HK

2019/10/16 11:35:23, Global Times (China) http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1167020.shtml

By Yang Sheng, Wang Wenwen in Beijing and Wang Cong, Zhao Juecheng in Hong

Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act moves closer to becoming law

China warned of effective countermeasures after the US House of Representatives approved legislation that authorizes the US government to launch diplomatic action and economic sanctions against officials and law-enforcement personnel from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

The House on Tuesday backed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, moving it closer to becoming law.

Aside from being condemned by authorities of China, the US move was also criticized by Hong Kong lawmakers, legal professionals and scholars from the mainland and Hong Kong.

Some experts suggested that China should prepare for countermeasures if the bill

DPR/Morozova demands UN assess actions by chief of human rights mission in Ukraine

August 22, 2019 18:47, DAN Donetsk News Agency (DPR) Morozova demands UN assess actions by chief of human rights mission in Ukraine

Darya Morozova

Donetsk, Apr 22 – DAN. Donetsk People’s Republic ombudswoman Darya Morozova demanded that the United Nations Organisation assess the actions by chief of the UN human rights mission in Ukraine who supported criminal prosecution of Donbass politicians by Kiev.

“Darya Morozova demanded proper assessment of actions by head of the UN human rights monitoring mission Matilda Bogner, as well as confirmation of the impartiality and independence in executing the Mission’s mandate in connection with the Donbass conflict,” the ombudswoman’s press service reported on Thursday.

The DPR ombudswoman sent a formal request to the UN High Commissioner for

USA/Criminal Embargoes: Venezuela and Iran in the Crosshairs of Murderers Inc – Who Is Next?

August 10, 2019, Global Research (Canada) https://www.globalresearch.ca/criminal-embargoes-venezuela-iran-crosshairs-murderers-inc-who-next/5686080

By Peter Koenig*

Imagine just for a moment, the World would stand up in unison, sick and tired of the aggressive killer arrogance of the United States and her vassals – and their joint war-force called NATO – and this World, our World, what’s left of it when you deduct Washington and its Brussels allies, would at once block every shipment of everything destined for the ports of the United States of America; every sea port, airport and road port. Hermetically. Nothing would enter. Nothing, no food, no medicine, no electronics, no cars – no nothing. And nothing could leave. No exports, no petrol, no grains, no meat, no pharmaceuticals and foremost, no weapons. Nothing.

And now, take your mind a step further – and imagine the same – exactly the same, a total and full blockage of Israel – nothing would enter, no food, no fuel, no medication, no machinery and especially no weapons – and nothing would leave; a full and total blockage.

This would of course be totally illegal; illegal and unacceptable, by any international law, by the standards of the UN Charter, by the Human Rights Laws and Directives – by any ethical values of human morals. Wouldn’t it? – Yet, this is exactly what these countries are doing, have been doing for decades, sanctioning to strangle and murder entire populations into death or submission. The US with Cuba; Israel with Palestine. And the coercion and

Brasil/Where Do You Turn When the Anti-Corruption Crusaders Are Dirty?

July 5, 2019, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opinion/lula-moro-brazil.html

By Vanessa Barbara

Contributing Opinion Writer

Brazil’s Operation Car Wash was supposed to overthrow the country’s culture of graft. Instead, it’s brought corruption into the heart of the state.

São Paulo, Brazil — On the surface, “Operation Car Wash” has been a virtuous crusade against political corruption in this country.

Over the last five years, this federal investigation has uncovered vast kickback schemes involving Brazil’s most important executives and politicians. The operation has led to the criminal prosecution of 429 individuals and the conviction of 159 of them. News outlets have eagerly covered each step of the investigation, pushing for and praising the overthrow of a culture of graft in Brazilian politics. The investigation should, in theory, be a source of pride for our young democracy — only this is not the whole story.

From the beginning, Operation Car Wash resorted to questionable procedures, such as using pretrial detentions to force confessions and relying too heavily on generous plea-bargain deals. But these didn’t seem enough to dismiss its efforts against wide-scale corruption, at least in the public’s eye.

Then, on June 9, the news site The Intercept Brasil published the first in a series of reports casting doubts on the integrity of the main actors within the investigation. The journalists obtained,

September 28, 2016/News: 1- LPR: foreign observers…, 2- Video: sobriety march by…, 3- Ukraine starts disrupting…, 4- Ukrainian ex-PM: Neglecting human rights…, 5- Mendacious international investigators: 'MH17…, 6- Donetsk Defense: Situation…

DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

1- LPR: foreign observers don’t raise comments on primaries preparation

2- Video: sobriety march by AFU alcoholic-soldiers

3- Ukraine starts disrupting agreements on disengagement of forces in Donbass on the fly

4- Ukrainian ex-PM: Neglecting human rights Kiev violates Association Agreement with EU

5- Mendacious international investigators: 'MH17 shot down by rebels using Buk system brought from Russia'

6- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 28.09.16

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1- LPR: foreign observers don’t raise comments on primaries preparation

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 14:28, DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

The foreign observers monitoring process of preparation for the preliminary public voting in the LPR did not direct statements on some violations towards the address of the primaries selection committee and of the temporary election committee. 

It has been reported by Oleg Akimov, the selection committee on holding the preliminary voting.

Either we or the temporary election committee did not receive remarks and statements from the foreign observers about violations that could hinder the primaries holding. 

Vice versa, all the foreign observers are noting the organizers’ sincere wish to hold the primaries with the best democratic standards and democratic principles of the OSCE,’ pointed out Oleg Akimov.  

DONi News Agency

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2- Video: sobriety march by AFU alcoholic-soldiers

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 13:34, DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

On the official Youtube-Channel of the AFU there was published a video of “moral building activities” with soldiers of the 79th separate airmobile brigade  caught while drinking alcohol. The brigade is located in

21.07.2016/Donetsk and Lugansk Situation, European court, Lyashko’s office, Nazis announced

DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

1- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 21.07.2016

2- Lugansk Defense: Situation Report, 21.07.2016

3- European court states only Ukraine bears responsibility for Donbass residents’ death

4- Lyashko’s office warns about "another Chernobyl" at Khmelnitsky NPP

5- Nazis announced creation of "Kiev Defense Headquarters

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1- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 21.07.2016

Thursday, July 21, 2016, DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

Over the past day the number of bombardments reached three hundred and eight.

The enemy launched sixty-three 120mm mortar shells and a hundred twenty 82mm mortar shells. In addition, the enemy used in shelling infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and

BRICS, БРИКС/WHITE BOOK ON VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE/БЕЛАЯ КНИГА НАРУШЕНИЙ ПРАВ ЧЕЛОВЕКА И ПРИНЦИПА ВЕРХОВЕНСТВА ПРАВА НА УКРАИНЕ

WHITE BOOK ON VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW

IN UKRAINE (APRIL 2014 — MID-JUNE 2014)

Moscow June 2014, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PDF: http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-dgpch.nsf/03c344d01162d351442579510044415b/38fa8597760acc2144257ccf002beeb8/$FILE/White%20Book-2.pdf

Table of Contents

Introduction ..................................................................................................5

Violations of human rights and the principle of the rule of law

in the course of the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ ...............................7

Violations of the right to freedom of thought and belief,

including political beliefs; the intimidation and kidnapping

of political opponents .................................................................................29

Brasil e Alemanha apresentam à ONU projeto de resolução sobre o direito à privacidade na era digital

1 novembro 2013, Ministério das Relações Exteriores http://www.itamaraty.gov.br (Brasil)

O texto será considerado pela III Comissão da Assembleia Geral e, posteriormente, pelo plenário da própria Assembleia.

Brasil e Alemanha apresentam à Assembleia Geral da ONU projeto de resolução sobre o direito à privacidade na era digital

Os Governos do Brasil e da Alemanha apresentaram hoje à Assembleia Geral da ONU projeto de resolução acerca do direito à privacidade na era digital. O texto será considerado pela III Comissão da Assembleia Geral e, posteriormente, pelo plenário da própria Assembleia. 

Segue a tradução para português do referido projeto de resolução, bem como sua versão original, em inglês:

Tradução para português

A Assembleia Geral,

PP1. Reafirmando os objetivos e princípios da Carta das Nações Unidas,

PP2. Reafirmando também os direitos humanos e liberdades fundamentais consagrados na Declaração Universal de Direitos Humanos e tratados internacionais relevantes sobre direitos humanos, inclusive o Pacto Internacional sobre Direitos Civis e Políticos e o Pacto Internacional sobre Direitos Econômicos, Sociais e Culturais,

PP3. Reafirmando, ainda, a Declaração de Viena e seu Programa de Ação, 

PP4. Observando que o ritmo acelerado do desenvolvimento tecnológico permite aos indivíduos em todas as regiões utilizarem novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação e, ao mesmo tempo, aumenta a capacidade de governos, empresas e indivíduos de vigiar, interceptar e coletar dados, o que pode violar os direitos humanos, em particular o direito à privacidade, tal como consagrado no artigo 12 da Declaração Universal de Direitos Humanos e no artigo 17 do Pacto Internacional de Direitos Civis e Políticos e constitui, portanto, tema de preocupação crescente, 

PP5. Reafirmando o direito humano dos indivíduos à privacidade e a não ser submetido a ingerências arbitrárias ou ilegais em sua vida privada, em sua família, em seu domicílio ou em sua correspondência, bem como o direito à proteção da lei contra tais ingerências ou ofensas, e

ONU: Preparan proyecto de resolución contra el espionaje de Estados Unidos

26 octubre 2013, Red Voltaire http://www.voltairenet.org (França)

Por iniciativa de Brasil, una veintena de países están preparando un proyecto de resolución destinado a garantizar la confidencialidad de las comunicaciones a través de internet, proyecto que esos Estados tienen la intención de presentar a la Asamblea General de la ONU.

Aunque el documento no menciona explícitamente a la NSA [1], se trata claramente de una iniciativa dirigida contra el programa estadounidense de intercepción masiva de las comunicaciones, partiendo del principio que esa forma de espionaje viola el Pacto de Derechos Civiles y Políticos y la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos.

Según el borrador actualmente en estudio (Ver el documento en inglés al final de esta información), los Estados miembros de la ONU quedarían obligados a adoptar las medidas necesarias para garantizar la protección de la vida privada de los ciudadanos. También según ese documento, el secretario general de la ONU se vería por su parte obligado a presentar informes periódicos sobre la aplicación de esas medidas.
El documento resalta además que ese tipo de espionaje es totalmente incompatible con la noción misma de democracia.

Desde 1948, Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña, Australia y Nueva Zelanda emprendieron un vasto programa de espionaje, que apunta incluso a sus propios aliados con el objetivo de mantenerlos en una situación de dependencia. Ya conocido desde hace mucho tiempo,

Timor-Leste/THE HIGH COST OF BEING A TRUTH-SEEKING JOURNALIST IN THE EMERGING NATION OF EAST TIMOR

November 2011/Breakingthenews http://breakingthenews.com.au

Filmed over four years in Australia's most misunderstood neighbour East Timor, Breaking the News explores the high cost of being a truth-seeking journalist in an emerging nation.

Eleven years since the East Timorese successfully voted for independence from Indonesia, Breaking the News gets behind the scenes of news and current affairs reportage to challenge those who think a free press automatically comes with independence. What happens to the local journalists when the foreign reporters return safely home after covering each crisis, their stories in the can? Jose Belo and Rosa Garcia are two local journalists enmeshed in the political turmoil of their country, who regularly put themselves and their families at risk by reporting ongoing corruption and injustice.

Breaking the News from MutinyMedia on Vimeo.

UN condemns East Timor militia leader’s “release”

Dili, 1 September 2009 (AFP) - The United Nations condemned Tuesday the reported release of an Indonesian former militia leader accused of taking part in a massacre of civilians in East Timor in 1999.

"If the reports are true, his release is contrary to the Security Council resolutions which set up the UN Mission in (East Timor) and seriously undermines the global principle of accountability for crimes against humanity," Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokeswoman Marie Okabe said in a statement.

The UN said earlier this week that the suspect, Martenus Bere, had been released Sunday ahead of national celebrations commemorating 10 years since East Timor won independence from Indonesia in a UN-backed referendum.

The government has refused to confirm Bere's release amd the UN appeared to backtrack on Tuesday, saying in a separate statement that its mission in Dili was "not in a position to comment" on Bere's circumstances.

Bere was detained in East Timor on August 8, five years after being indicted for his role in the 1999 Suai Church massacre, in which up to 200 people were killed.

"The UN's firm position is that there can be no amnesty or impunity for serious crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide," Okabe said.

"In that context, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights strongly opposes the release of someone for whom an arrest warrant of this nature has been established."

East Timor's leadership has been criticised for opposing prosecution for those responsible for abuses during Indonesia's bloody 1975-1999 occupation of the half-island, which killed around 100,000 people.

President Jose Ramos-Horta says restoring good relations with Indonesia is more important than "prosecutorial justice", and has said he will not let his country be used as an "experiment" in international justice.

The opposition Fretilin party however says he is out of touch with the East Timorese people, many of whom continue to demand justice for gross human rights abuses committed during the Indonesian occupation.

DON'T TRAIN INDONESIA'S DEADLY KOPASSUS

(please spread the word!)

Sign the Petition - http://www.gopetition.com/online/29600.html

Indonesia's Special Forces (Kopassus), more than any other in the Indonesian military, stands accused by the Indonesian people of some of the most egregious human rights violations.

The history of Kopassus human rights violations, its criminality and its unaccountability before Indonesian courts extends back decades and includes human rights and other crimes in East Timor, Aceh, West Papua and elsewhere. The crimes of Kopassus are not only in the past. A recently published Human Rights Watch report details ongoing Kopassus human right violations in West Papua.

In 2008, the Bush administration proposed to restart U.S. training of Kopassus. the State Department legal counsel reportedly ruled that the ban on training of military units with a history of involvement in human rights violations, known as the Leahy law, applies to Kopassus as a whole.

See the letter signed by more than 50 U.S. organizations opposing training for Kopassus: http://www.etan.org/news/2009/07kopassus.htm. Additional background about the crime of Kopassus here: http://www.etan.org/news/2008/04brikop.htm.

27 july 2009

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Timor-Leste/GUTERRES NAMED ACTING PRIME MINISTER DESPITE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION

Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente (FRETILIN)

Media release

Dili: July 15, 2009

The appointment of Jose Luis Guterres as Acting Prime Minister of Timor–Leste despite unresolved allegations of serious corruption, again shows that the governing AMP coalition considers itself above the law, FRETILIN’s deputy parliamentary leader, Francisco Branco MP,
said today.

Guterres was named Acting PM after de facto Prime Minister Gusmao was urgently evacuated to Singapore for medical treatment.

Branco said evidence emerged 18 months ago, in January 2008, of abuse of power by Guterres while he was Foreign Minister.

He said Guterres unilaterally granted his wife Ana Maria, then a junior staff member at Timor-Leste’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations in New York, the salary of a diplomat far exceeding her entitlements.

“As a foreigner and non-citizen Ana Maria Guterres could not legally be classified as a diplomat, yet her husband gave her a salary exceeding even that of the Head of Mission,” Branco said.

FRETILIN called for Guterres to be investigated in February 2008, but MPs from the AMP demanded proof, and so on April 8, 2008, FRETILIN presented an email written by Mr Guterres' wife Ana Maria in June 2007, which read in part:

"The transfers made into my personal account by the Ministry of Finance to date were respectively $10,673.33 on 24 November (being for the first quarter) 2006, $8,005.00 on 11 January (being for the second quarter) and $18,667.14 on 11 April (being for the third quarter)
which can certainly be verified with the Ministry of Finance. I only became aware at the time I sought verification that by law, even though I possess a Timorese Diplomatic passport, I do not have citizenship rights because I have not lived in Timor-Leste for a minimum of eight years. For this reason I could not be classified as a Diplomat for contractual purposes nor for entitlements."

On ABC Radio Australia Connect Asia program on February 6, 2008, Mr Guterres admitted that he had in fact authorised these payments to his wife, saying: “it was a temporary solution, it was not a solution that I wanted to. But at that time in the situation of crisis in East Timor, and I had to come back to East Timor to serve the country, therefore the available solution at that time.”

Francisco Branco said: “Jose Luis Guterres had a clear conflict of interest given he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and effectively his wife’s boss. He abused his power to benefit his own family with something to which it was not legally entitled. That is official corruption in anyone’s book.

“Now he is in charge of the nation whilst the de facto Prime Minister is away receiving urgent medical treatment. Many in Timor-Leste are wondering what Guterres is up to right now, given his track record.”

Branco said FRETILIN MPs asked the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice (the Provedor) to investigate the allegations against Guterres more than a year ago, but had heard nothing about the investigation.

“During the fortnight before he was evacuated to Singapore, the de facto Prime Minister himself was the subject of very serious allegations that he breached the Procurement Law and State Office Holders Law in awarding contracts without tenders to his daughter and relatives of other government ministers.

“Xanana Gusmao is full of fine rhetoric about how he is leading the fight against corruption, nepotism and collusion.

“Yet we know that the Provedor has had a hard time trying unsuccessfully to get Ministers and the Prime Minister to cooperate in delivering documents or responding to requests for information
concerning allegations of corruption by his ministers.”

For information contact Arsenio Bano MP on +670 741 9505
fretilin.media@gmail.com

Action ALERT/East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

Petition to Urge President-elect Obama not to appoint former Adm. Dennis Blair

Sign the petition now! http://www.petitiononline.com/blair01/petition.html

Urge President-elect Obama not to appoint former Adm. Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence. As Commander in the Pacific, he cozied up to the Indonesian military and downplayed human rights concerns in the lead up and aftermath of East Timor's independence referendum. According to news reports, Obama will appoint his intelligence chief this week.

For background go here - http://etan.org/news/2008/12blair.htm.

In addition to signing the petition, you can also cut, paste and modify the text below and post it to President-elect Obama's transition website. Just go here: http://change.gov/page/s/seattable and send a comment.

Thank you and spread the word! ETAN


President-elect Obama -

We urge you not to appoint Adm. Dennis Blair as Director of National Intelligence. During his years as Pacific Commander, Blair actively worked to reinstate military assistance and deepen ties to Indonesia's military, despite its ongoing human rights violations in East Timor and its consistent record of impunity. In 1999, he undermined the U.S. efforts to support human rights and self-determination in the Indonesian-occupied territory and opposed congressional efforts to limit assistance.

In April 1999, just days after Indonesian security forces and their militias carried out a brutal, churchyard massacre, Adm. Blair delivered a message of 'business-as-usual' to Indonesian General Wiranto, then Commander of the Indonesian armed forces. Following East Timor's pro-independence vote, Blair sought the quickest possible restoration of military assistance, despite Indonesia's highly destructive exit and the failure, which continues to this day, to prosecute the senior officials who oversaw the violence.

This lack of concern for human rights shows that he is unlikely to be a champion of reform. I don't believe that this is the kind of change people are expecting.

http://www.etan.org/action/2006/29alert.htm

Timor-Leste/FRETILIN MPs denounce threats by Prime Minister

Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente (FRETILIN)

Media Release
Dili, 3 October 2008

On September 28, 2008, Timor Leste's de facto Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, declared in Ainaro that a proposed 'March of Peace' sponsored by the largest party in the parliament, FRETILIN, would be crushed when it arrived in Dili. FRETILIN's leadership denounced this threat as illegal and dictatorial, in a media conference in Dili yesterday.

The Prime Minister's threat was also broadcast nationwide on radio and television. His exact words were: "I hear that you from here are preparing a March of Peace to Dili. I will wait for you there, and put you all in jail!"

FRETILIN President Francisco (Lu Olo) Guterres said, "I and many who heard those threatening words simply wish to ask why Mr Gusmao feels the need to threaten people who wish to demonstrate their political conviction and express their constitutional rights to undertake a march with totally peaceful intentions, to show peace, with a spirit of democracy.

Why are they the subject of threats from our nation's leaders to 'put you in jail'?"

"I remind Mr Gusmao that according to our Constitution, in a state under the rule of law, it's not he who 'puts people in jail'", said Mr Guterres. "In a democratic state under the rule of law, only a court of law can 'put people in jail' and then only if it is proven in a court that they have breached the law. But it is certainly not the Prime Minister, or even the President or a Liurai (traditional feudal King) who can just do so because that is his wish. Not even the Army or the Police or the UN Police can jail anyone without a court order or warrant, and then only if the law is being broken.

"Only in a dictatorship like the old Portuguese Colonial dictatorship and the Suharto regime can a Prime Minister simply jail people without a trial as he wishes. But not in a sovereign, constitutional and democratic Timor-Leste," declared Guterres.

Clause 42 of the Constitution of the RDTL gives everyone the freedom and right to demonstrate within the law. Timor-Leste has ratified the UN Charter and Conventions that also guarantee these rights and freedoms.

According to Guterres, the people persistently demand the Peace March to affirm Peace and Democracy and Justice in the country. "It is a March that, when it happens, will be peaceful, in a spirit of democracy, respecting the rights of other citizens and the law and all State institutions," he said.

"The planned Peace March by FRETILIN, its allies and communities, will be done to take this country in a better direction, not as our history shows, especially in 2006, to mobilize people to take this country in a worse direction.

"We ask all relevant State institutions to assure that those participating in a lawful Peace March will be able to so exercise their rights and freedoms without threats of incarceration, and especially call on the police to protect them as they do so," Guterres insisted.

"We ask the State, especially the government, not to politicise the police against the people who wish to march in the planned March of Peace, because we also heard last Saturday the de facto Prime Minister in Ainaro say that 'I have told the police that I will not permit any small group to lie to the people'. FRETILIN is not a small group of people, but whether the group is large or small, we all have a right to lawfully carry on our political activities," said Guterres.

He argued that the people feel the need to reaffirm a democratic state under the rule of law because in just one year the country had fallen more and more towards a dictatorship, with increasing breaches of human rights.

Guterres noted the arrest and beating of journalists, and the arrest without warrant of Opposition MPs, during the state of siege following the shootings on February 11 this year, and the recent repression of student protests about the state budget and the purchase of luxury 4WD Prados for MPs. So far there has been no substantive response to the reports on these violations by the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice.
"So these are not just threats from our recent experience," noted Guterres.

Guterres urged national leaders not to threaten the people with jail, and not to use words like 'cannons', 'armored tanks', or 'battalions', which the Prime Minister used in his Ainaro speech. "It is better if you all start to speak of the constitution, peace, democracy, tolerance, freedom, justice, the rule of law and the rights our people have to live in peace and express their political views free from fear or threats," Guterres said.

Guterres also asked people not to be affected by the threats against their rights. "When all of us walk this lawful path of peace and democracy, there will be no jail big enough to incarcerate us all," he concluded defiantly.

For information contact:
José Teixeira MP +670 728 7080
Nilva Guimarães (media officer) +670 734 0389

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FRETILIN sublinha não alterar planos da Marcha da Paz

Jornal da Madeira / Internacional / 2008-10-03

Em Díli nos próximos meses

A FRETILIN "não muda uma vírgula" no plano de realizar a Marcha da Paz em Díli nos próximos meses, segundo afirmou, ontem, o presidente do maior partido da oposição, Francisco Guterres "Lu Olo".

O líder da FRETILIN respondeu, em conferência de imprensa, a declarações do primeiro-ministro, Xanana Gusmão, num discurso em Ainaro, a 28 de Setembro.

"Lu Olo" acusou Xanana de ter dito à população que "tinha ouvido que se preparava a Marcha da Paz" para Díli, mas que "não valia a pena" as pessoas descerem à capital.

"O primeiro-ministro disse que estaria à espera de quem se manifestasse e que os meteria a todos na cadeia", acusou o líder da FRETILIN. (Agência Lusa)