Brutality returns to Argentina's streets as police moves in on peaceful demonstrators
Source: Daily Express
Police used water canon and batons against peaceful protesters in Buenos Aires as they campaigned to know the whereabouts of ‘disappeared’ human rights activist Santiago Maldonado.
Journalists have called Friday night events an attack on the free press as police arrested reporters covering the protest. Thirty people were detained - including seven reporters - and 23 were wounded, according to the Buenos Aires Press Union (Sipreba).
Maldonado was last seen at an indigenous-rights demonstration in Patagonia on August 1. Police deny arresting him, and there are no official records showing he was detained. Human rights campaigners, union leaders and left-wing groups gathered under the slogan "Donde está Santiago?" (Where is Santiago) as they called for President Mauricio Macri's government to do more to find him.
Maldonado's disappearance last month has sparked fury and fear among people in Argentina, who have compared it the up to 30,000 'disappeared' under the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged Argentina to take "the necessary measures to determine the situation and Maldonado's whereabouts" as well as to report on the investigation of the facts.
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Protesters call on Security Minister Patricia Bullrich to reveal Santiago Maldonado's whereabouts. "One of the officers might have gotten out of hand," she admitted to a congresswoman.
