An appeal for the release of Milagro Sala
An appeal for the release of Milagro Sala
Friday 8 April 2016 12.27 EDT
We the undersigned – British, European and American academics – are concerned about the arbitrary detention by the Argentinian government of Milagro Sala. Milagro is a parliamentary member of Parlasur (the Mercosur parliament in Latin America) and a community leader of the social neighbourhood organisation Tupac Amaru, which has worked to provide housing, healthcare and education for the local community in the province of Jujuy in Argentina. Tupac Amaru has been internationally celebrated as a model for grassroots social action.
Amnesty International considers “that Milagro Sala is being criminalised for peacefully exercising her rights to freedom of expression and protest” and, along with other human rights groups, have called for the granting of precautionary measures to guarantee the liberty of Milagro Sala, along with the exercise of freedom of expression and the right to social protest in Argentina.
We believe that Milagro Sala’s arrest is politically motivated. She was initially arrested for peacefully protesting, but subsequently she has been accused of additional crimes – sedition, fraud, publicly instigating criminal activity, belonging to an illegal association – all of which serve to keep her in prison.
We demand her immediate release; we also call for the Argentinian government not to criminalise social protest and to guarantee a constitutional, transparent legal process.
Professor Chantal Mouffe Westminster University, UK
Professor Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr Mark Devenney University of Brighton, UK
Etienne Balibar Paris West University Nanterre, France
Davide Tarizzo University of Salerno, Italy
Professor Joan Copjec Brown University, US
Professor Giacomo Marramao Roma Tre University, Italy
Professor Bruno Bosteels Cornell University, US
Professor Yannis Stavrakakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Professor Oliver Marchart University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Lisa Disch University of Michigan, US
Professor Rada Ivecovic International College of Philosophy, France
Professor José Luis Villacañas Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dr Anthony Leaker University of Brighton, UK
Dr Clare Woodford University of Brighton, UK
Professor Sam Chambers Johns Hopkins University, US
Dr Jeremy Valentine Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
Professor Todd May Clemson University, US
Professor Fernando Castro Flórez Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Dr Allan Dreyer Hansen Roskilde University, Denmark
Professor Germán Cano University of Alcalá, Spain
Dr José Enrique Ema University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Professor Fernando Broncano Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Professor Miguel Cereceda Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Professor Jodi Dean Hobart-William Smith Colleges, US
Professor Jorge Riechmann Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Professor Alan Finlayson University of East Anglia, UK
Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolos Aristotle University, Greece
Dr Lasse Thomassen Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dr Emilia Palonen University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr Rebecca Searle University of Brighton, UK
Timothy Huzar University of Brighton, UK
Dr Joanna Kellond University of Brighton, UK
Anna Rajala University of Brighton, UK
Timo Uotinen Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Andrea Garcia Gonzalez University of Brighton, UK
Dr Félix Díaz University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Marina Montoto Ugarte Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dr Miguel Álvarez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Dr Robin Dunford University of Brighton, UK
Dr Tom Bunyard University of Brighton, UK
Arthur Borriello Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Professor Saul Newman Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Samuele Mazzolini University of Essex, UK
Professor Edmundo Paz Soldán Cornell University, US
Dr Liliana Colanzi Cornell University, US
Dr Ernesto Castro Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dr Gonzalo Velasco Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain
Professor Linda Zerilli University of Chicago, US
Dr José Angel Rodríguez Ribas University of Wales (EADE), Málaga, Spain
Professor Manuel Montalbán Peregrín Málaga University, Spain
Dr Giorgos Katsambekis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Professor José Ordónñez Seville University, Spain
Meghan Sutherland University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Cartsen Jensen Roskilde University, Denmark
Professor Laura Domínguez de La Rosa Málaga University, Spain
Dr Lucía Bodas Fernández Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Jelica Sumic Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rado Riha Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/08/an-appeal-for-the-release-of-milagro-sala
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Milagro Sala.
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