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

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hola

Para los que no saben todavia, los activistas tuvieron sus
credenciales de vuelta y fue posible participar novamente del evento
La negociacion para eso tuve gran participacion de CGI.br

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Vanda Scartezini <vanda en scartezini.org> wrote:
> 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
> Sent from my iPhone
> 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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