After nearly twenty years, Álvaro Sebastián Ramírez and Abraham García Ramírez were freed from prison in Oaxaca, two of the longest held political prisoners in the history of Mexico. They were accused of participating in the armed rebellion of EPR in 1996, with pre-fabricated files, without evidence, and with appeals and infinite legal resources available. Of the group of Loxicha political prisoners, still one remains imprisoned, Zacarías Garía López, held in CEFERESO 13 of Miahuatlán.
At the exit of the prison, a group of family members and others in solidarity waited for their release to share their freedom and joy. Álvaro is an adherent of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, and announcements have immediately been shared celebrating his freedom.
Communiqué released the night before his liberation:
To our compañer@s of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To our compañer@s of the National Indigenous Congress
To our compañer@s of the Network Against Repression and For Solidarity
To our compañer@s of the Sixth in Mexico and the World
To those who subscribe, as the collective La Voz de los Zapotecos Xiches en Prisión, we want to share with you the following information:
Tonight, compañero Álvaro Sebastián Ramírez will leave prison.
It is a matter of a few hours while the Director of the central penitentiary of Santa María Ixcotel makes operative the ticket to freedom issued by the Eighth Judge of the district, in which grants “early release”.
We call on all of the compañer@s to be attentive to the situation.
Freedom to all political prisoners of Mexico and the World!
Long live the autonomy of the Indigenous peoples!
Lone live the Sixth Declaration of the Lacondona Jungle!
Long live the Network Against Repression and for Solidarity!
Long live the National Indigenous Congress
Long live the Zapatista Army of National Liberation!
Translated from the original here: https://www.centrodemedioslibres.org/2017/07/08/libres-2-presos-politicos-loxichas-1-por-liberar-alvaro-sebastian-y-abraham-garcia-libres/
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