[lac-discuss-es] Brazilian activists banned from IGF

[Vanda Scartezini]

Thank you Renata to make it clear.after the meeting I have coordinated last morning I head to RECIFE and come back today to work. Rinalia just asked me what was written there so I will resend this email to her

Vanda Scartezini
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Sorry for typos 

> On 10 de nov de 2015, at 20:26, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino en gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Direto do #IGF2015
> 
> In exercising their freedom of expression, activists from brazilian
> civil society organizations held a silent and peaceful protest during
> the opening session of the 10th Internet Governance Forum (#IGF2015),
> an event promoted by the UN and Comitê Gestor da Internet (CGIBr), in
> João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba.
> 
> The IGF – Internet Governance Forum participants took half a dozen
> posters and a banner to call attention to the defense of net
> neutrality and the risks that this principle for the free flow of
> information on the Internet has been suffering in Brazil and
> worldwide. There was also a banner protesting against the project
> financed by Facebook, the Internetorg.
> 
> Protest against Internetorg at IGF is repressed by UN (youtube)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9cxyHqrl2k
> 
> The protest was repressed by the UN security guards, some of them
> using of physical strength. After that, the activists were filmed,
> photographed, some were pressured to show their cellphones and were
> surveilled during all the session, in an explicit act of intimidation
> and violation of their privacy. Beyond that, they also had their
> credentials photographed and withheld by security and were forbidden
> to participate at IGF>
> 
> This kind of repression is incompatible inside an event that is
> precisely discussing how to protect freedom of speech at the Internet
> and how to guarantee privacy of those who use the world wide web.
> 
> We demand that the credentials are returned and that the right of each
> and every one to express her and himself democratically be preserved
> in a United Nations event. We hope that the brazilian authorities
> manifest themselves to guarantee that the access of organizations and
> activists is not prevented.
> 
> João Pessoa, november 10 2015.
> 
> Articulação Marco Civil Já
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