MSN denounces the detention of compañero Malacara of CNUC

MSN denounces the detention of compañero Malacara of CNUC. CNUC's statement is translated here:

Brothers and Sisters,

We are writing to request your solidarity and support because today, Wednesday May 16 at 2pm, around 15 individuals (some of them armed) presenting themselves as agents of the Mexican Attorney General (without showing any identification) arrived at CNUC offices and by brute force took our brother HECTOR MANUEL PERALES MALACARA, an adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and the Other Campaign as well as a staff organizer with CNUC. In this detention said subjects threatened sister LUZ RIVERA MARTINEZ, who witnessed the above mentioned acts and who by questioning them was accused of interfering with an act of justice, by telling her they could “really fuck her over (cargar la verga)” and that they could do whatever they wanted.
 
After this, the subjects took brother Malacara and by force put him in an unidentified vehicle.
 
We call on our international brothers and sisters to share this act of aggression with your networks and demand that the government, in the case that it actually is the Prosecutor’s office who ordered the detention, clarify their legal charges or that they free him if they can’t justify his arrest. On behalf of independent organizations in defense of human rights, we ask for your intervention, accompaniment, and denouncement of the facts denounced herein.
 
THE OTHER CAMPAIGN TLAXCALA
NATIONAL RURAL AND URBAN COUNCIL (CNUC)

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