Chilean Students Will Come to Justice for Repression in The Demonstrations

Chilean students will come to justice for repression in the demonstrations

The Student Federation of Chile (CONFECH) take the Interamerican Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to report one hundred cases of alleged excessive repression by the Chilean police, who star in the marches for over five months.

Chilean students demand a free public education and quality to end the educational system inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1990-1973).

“It will assist the Human Rights Court, where the Centre for Legal Studies of the date will carry 117 cases where we can show that today’s Special Forces police have cracked down hard,” said Patricio Contreras, president of Student Federation of the University of Los Lagos.

According to Contreras, the alleged assaults are “an illegal force, than in any other country in the world is called torture.”

“The different cases will be presented on 28 October in the United States in Washington,” meanwhile, student leader Giorgio Jackson.

Previously, the student leader Camila Vallejo met this week with the director of the National Human Rights Institute, Lorena Fries, to present a report received by the alleged attacks by students.

Following a meeting of the CONFECH held in the southern city of Osorno, some 800 km south of Santiago, the students called for a new mass demonstration on Saturday November 5, and a march for Nov. 8 at Valparaiso, where locates the Chilean Congress to pressure the political parties in parliamentary debate.

The student movement has fought dozens of cultural events and massive marches, most of which have ended heavy fighting with the police and hundreds of detainees, most of them later released without charge.

The Chilean Camila Vallejo student leader addresses the crowd on the second day of a 48-hour protest to pressure the gobiero Sebastian Pinera. Students call for a reform of the Chilean education.