RIGHTS-PERU: Leftist Leaders Targeted by Anti-Terror Police (IPS) [View All]

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By Ángel Páez

LIMA, Nov 28 (IPS) - ... Sources with the DIRCOTE anti-terrorism police force told IPS that the content of emails found on the laptop of Reyes -- who was killed in a Colombian bombing raid of a FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) camp just inside the Ecuadorean border in March -- "completed" an ongoing investigation into ties between Peruvian citizens and the FARC ...

But two of the people targeted by DIRCOTE -- the secretary general of the Communist Party of Peru-Red Fatherland (PCP-PR), Alberto Moreno, and the leader of the Peruvian Communist Party-Unity (PCP-U), Renán Raffo -- say the request for arrest warrants is part of a government plan to jail opponents.

The PCP-PR and PCP-U are legal political parties that have even held seats in both houses of Congress at one time or another, and which are registered with the national election authorities ...ies of terrorist organisations," he added.

"It is irresponsible of the government to cite Colombian police sources as the only evidence," <raffo> said. "We have asked to be given access to the documents on which the accusation is based, and the authorities have refused. They won’t even allow us to defend ourselves" ...

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