Norberto Parra Leiva probably ever heard of a British citizen Binyam Mohamed. But without knowing, he knows his history like few others. Binyam Mohamed, a British resident follower of Islam, was released from Guantanamo a February 23, 2009. He spent four years in detention and was only released after staging a dramatic hunger strike, the same as forcing a humanitarian agreement between the British and American government. Mohamed was arrested in 2002 in Pakistan, as reported, was taken by the CIA from the U.S. to a prison in Morocco, where spent 18 months and suffered several sessions of torture before being transferred to the naval prison in the Caribbean. The young man came to the UK in 1994 as a refugee and worked as a janitor in London until 2001, when he traveled to Pakistan for family reasons. This trip was the beginning of a nightmare that never imagined he would confess later.
United States accused Mohamed of participating in a terrorist plot to detonate a "dirty bomb" on its soil. "Witnesses secrets and confessions obtained under torture were" evidence "of intelligence against them. International pressure and especially its provision absolute starvation rather than remain "buried alive", worked the miracle. In 2009, after seven years of persecution and four of confinement at Guantanamo, Mohamed was eventually released without charge. Norberto Parra Leiva
probably never heard of Binyam Mohamed. But without knowing, he knows his history like few others. Parra Leiva, Mapuche farmers lake area Lleu-Lleu, was arrested along with two of his brothers in April 2009, this after a violent raid by police on the PDI and three communities in the area of \u200b\u200bPuerto Choque, Arauco Province . Incommunicado for several days, Norberto was tried for his alleged participation in an "ambush" in October 2008 in the area struck the convoy of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Attorney General, Mario Elgueta.
Parra, along with his brothers and 10 other Mapuche peasant sector, were formalized by Terrorism Act charges of "attempted murder" against the prosecutor and "serious injury" to the staff of the PDI. Later they would add charges of "conspiracy to robbery and theft of timber" and "armed robbery, risking more than 50 years in prison. As in the case of Mohamed, "secret witnesses" were the main "evidence" incriminating of the persecutors of Norberto. After nearly two years in "protective custody", a dramatic hunger strike for the government to withdraw the Terrorism Act and three-month trial, Norberto was acquitted of all charges and released. The same two brothers and most of his fellow fasting and confinement.
"Acquitted," read the verdict read in the Court of Cañete on 22 February. However, there were four defendants who were not so lucky, being at the end of the day convicted of "undermining authority" and other crimes. According to family reported, none of this would have happened were it not for the "secret witnesses" and "confessions" extracted under torture. The next will be announced March 22 sentencing. All are members of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco. And risk, so low, 15 years in prison.
Three months after the release of Binyam Mohamed, an Appellate Court ruling in the UK passed the evidence "secrets" confessions "under duress" used against him and five other British citizens held by "terror" in Guantánamo , "violated the right to a fair trial." To date, no top Chilean court has ruled on similar methods applied to the Chilean-Mapuche conflict in the south. At least not in such categorical terms. Be of comfort that lawyers themselves are the Public Defender who began to put on a little dot the i's.
"We are concerned about those who were convicted because they used the confession of one of them clearly obtained in violation of minimum guarantees. He denounced torture, there's medical history and that they never underwent an impartial investigation, "said the Regional Ombudsman, Georgy Schubert, after completing the landmark trial. "The institution of the" faceless witnesses "creates a situation of helplessness super obvious inequality of complex weapons, which violates the fundamental principles of our rule of law. Someone accuses you but do not know who he is, if you are involved or have some other interest. It is impossible to defend against them, you are blind and that is an imbalance that I believe I should not be "shot on the other hand Paula Road, the first woman to hold the position of National Ombudsman.
"secret witnesses is why I was imprisoned and secret witnesses is our peñis (brothers) are prisoners" complained Norberto Parra after recovering his freedom in Cañete. "I was almost two years in prison to be a show that we did. Eight charges were me post! ... But I leave happy, if you do nothing comes out with its head held high, giving the face, as I'm leaving now, "he added, visibly moved by the media. "To get my liberty I am determined that none of those still in detention, and his tormentors, to be forgotten. Weighed by an experience I never imagined I would live. I wish I could say that everything is over, but it is not. Are still being held without access to a fair trial and without opportunity to be with their families. I am grateful that I finally just leave my fate. I am grateful to my attorneys and people who worked for my release. I ask no revenge, only to be known the truth, so that in future no one will suffer what I suffered. " This
not said Norberto. These words of Binyam Mohamed, the day that his return to London.
Originally published in The Clinic, Issue of March 3, 2011 / www.theclinic.cl
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