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Protesters choke Mexico City
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| Last Edited | Penguin May 11, 2006 06:17pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, May 12, 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators blocked highways leading into Mexico's capital on Thursday to protest rights abuses by police against leftists in a rebellious nearby town and to demand the release of prisoners.
The protesters, many of them students, stopped long lines of traffic on several major highways leading into Mexico City in a protest backed by Subcomandante Marcos, the masked leader of Zapatista rebels in southern Mexico.
The demonstrations followed violence last week when thousands of police in riot gear swarmed the town of San Salvador Atenco, which for years had been under a form of autonomous self-rule.
Last week's brutal clashes between local activists and police exploded after police tried to evict unlicensed flower sellers from a market. Protesters threw Molotov cocktails at police and kidnapped several officers. The police responded by arresting around 200 people, many of whom were beaten up.
A 14-year-old boy was shot dead in the violence, and Mexico's human rights watchdog is looking into allegations that police sexually assaulted women they had arrested. |
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