Polibio Perez Assaulted
3rd August 2007
ISN Folks,
An urgent e-mail update from DECOIN.
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Just a quick note since the lines are working today (at least this morning).
Yesterday a pro-mining crowd captured polibio in Garcia Moreno and almost killed him. He was saved by police who were ordered directly from Quito to rescue him. His motorcycle was destroyed, however. There were at least one Ascendant employee taking place in the violence, as perhaps as much as four- according to Polibio. As soon as I cofirm this, and if the lines are good, Ill blog (he called me as soon as he could, but the call was cut off and I could notreach him again afterwards) The crowd were likely responding to the latest stop work order and perhaps to the anti-corruption findings-
We would like for polibio to leave with his family, since afterwards trusted people said they were planning on burning his house down. We’re trying to get Amnisty to include this in their alerts.