Chomsky, Assange, Rousseff Among 200 Prominent People Calling For Release of Milagro Sala

Chomsky, Assange, Rousseff Among 200 Prominent People Calling For Release of Milagro Sala

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THIS ARTICLE STATES , IN PART:

'Milagro Sala is an indigenous leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association and legislator to the Mercosur Parliament, or Parlasur, where her work involved administering a public grant to build low-income housing in Argentina's northern province of Jujuy. She was arrested last January on allegations of mishandling those funds and has been in jail ever since.

Sala contests the allegations, stating that racism plays a key role in her detention and being subjected to torture and receiving death threats. In several opportunities, she has stated that the Argentine corporate media has censured her and her people's struggle.

Many human rights advocates have denounced her arrest and, apart from the latest petition, she's received support from Pope Francis, the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International."
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