Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
JANUARY 16TH –
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH MARIA ALYOKHINA
FREE MARIA ALYOKHINA!
FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN
RUSSIA!
ACT IN BUENOS AIRES –
ARGENTINA
RUSSIAN EMBASSY – RODRÍGUEZ PEÑA 1741 –
18:00HS
Today,
January 16th, the court that carries out the case against Pussy Riot
will decide whether Maria Alyokhina, a member of the band, will be released
because she is a single mother of a small child. The court will take place in
the female prison IK-28 in Berezniki (Perm Kray). Her comrade, Nadia Tolokonikova, remains
imprisoned in Mordovia. That’s why the Pussy Riot
support group declares January 16 the International Day of Solidarity with
Maria Alyokhina, which will take place in several cities all around the world
(the complete list can be found here: http://freepussyriot.org/).
In Buenos Aires, the women organization called “Las Piqueteras” and the
left-wing organization called Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria (TPR) have
organized an acto in front of the Russian Embassy in Argentina with the
following slogans: “Free Maria Alyokhina!” and “Free political prisoners in
Russia!”.
Daiana
Asquini, leader of Las Piqueteras and the TPR, stated that “the Pussy Riot have
been imprisoned because of demonstrating publicly in favor of Vladimir Putin’s
resignation and in defense of women’s rights. In that same sense, Putin has
imprisoned several opposition activists who mobilized against the electoral
fraud committed by the Russian government during 2012, among whom are Leonid Razvozzahev,
Vladimir Akimenkov y Konstantin Levedev. On January 14th, a Moscow court
decided that Sergei Krivov must remain in prison preventively until March the 6th,
accused of participating in the mobilization of thousands of people that occurred
on May the 6th, 2012, in the Bolotnaya square against the fraud
committed by United Russia, the government party. There is also the sentence
against Maxim Luzyanin, because of the same cause, of 4 and half years in
prison. There are 12 remaining imprisoned from the 400 detained during the
mobilization. The detained are in terrible conditions: some don’t receive the
medications they need, there are denounces of tortures. Even Akimenkov, a 25
year old young man, is losing his sight because he doesn’t receive the
treatment he needs. Putin’s attack must be disowned
because it’s a clear attempt to block that popular mobilization against the
fraud and, in the case of Pussy Riot, also an example of violence from the
state against women who organize themselves for their own claims. However,
the attacks against freedom of expression aren’t only Putin’s patrimony: deputies
of Just Russia and of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which are
the main parties of opposition that placed some of their leaders in the
mobilization against electoral fraud, signed with deputies of United Russia an
intimation against a journalist that had called the Russian parliament ‘silly’. Because of all these reasons, today in Argentina we join the
international day of solidarity with Maria Alyokhina, demanding her freedom and
that of all the political prisoners in Russia”.
Contact:
Daiana
Asquini – (5411) 154 190 3554
TPR’s Press Secretary
TENDENCIA PIQUETERA REVOLUCIONARIA
tpr.internacional@gmail.com
// tpr-internet.blogspot.com
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