OAS Demands Argentina's Macri Release Indigenous Prisoner
Source: Telesur
OAS Demands Argentina's Macri Release Indigenous Prisoner
Published 30 November 2016
The Organization of America States, or OAS, has called on Argentine President Mauricio Macri to release Milagro Sala, a prominent Indigenous activist and lawmaker who has been imprisoned during his term.
Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the OAS, sent a letter Tuesday addressed to Sala demanding her "immediate release." She will have been imprisoned for a year in January.
Almagro said he shared his concern with "the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations, and other known international organizations."
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The U.N. requested in October that the government of Mauricio Macri immediately releases Indigenous activist Milagro Sala. The lawmaker was arrested in Jujuy on Jan. 16 after staging a month-long sit-in against Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales, an ally of President Macri.
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Pope Francis with Milagro Sala.