6 Abril, 2015, ANGOL, Chile

Cristian Melinao, Luis Marileo, Miguel Toro and Claudio Huentecol, Mapuche Political Prisoners, today fulfill 15 days on hunger strike inside the prison in Angol, demanding a revision of their precautionary measures and detention system.

The first two community members are serving sentences in the prison compound and were at the center of education and work (CET) of Las Rosas, but as a measure of unjust punishment were transferred to th

This monday inside the Angol prison four Mapuche political prisoners began a hunger strike to demand the revision of their precautionary measures and detention system, these are Cristian Melinao, Luis Marileo, Miguel Toro and Claudio Huentecol.

The first two community members are serving time in the prison compound and were at the center of education and work (CET) of Las Rosas, but as a measure of unjust punishment they were moved to the Angol prison so Melinao and Marileo ask again

List of Mapuche Political Prisoners March 2015
·         Centro de Estudio y Trabajo (CET), Angol:Pedro Aguirre Cerda N° 62, Angol. Phone 45-717011 Visits      Wednesday from 10:00 to 16:00Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00
Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00
Leonardo Quijón Pereira
·         Centro de Detención Preventiva (CDP), Angol:Los Confines S/N°, Angol. Phone 45-71

CRIMINAL COURT OF VALDIVIA CONVICTS MACHI MILLARAY HUICHALAF AND ABSOLVES THREE DEFENDERS OF "KINTUANTE".

By Research and Defence Centre SUR.
Link to original text: Mapuexpress

On Thursday November 13 the verdict was given in the trial held against two Machi, Millaray Huicahalaf and Tito Cañulef and two other defenders of "Kintuante" (sacred place for the communities in the area) accused of Arson on the estate Pisu Pisue, before the second Chamber of the Court of Cri

A Mapuche minor of the community Mallekoche in the Malleko province, Araucania region, was brutally assaulted by police after being arrested during a protest inside an estate against against a company affecting Mapuche ceremonial grounds.

This was denounced in a statement by that community which describes what happened on Tuesday, November 18, when three of its members went to the estate El Fiscal to require the company Serviterra to stop "the serious damage and irreversible de

Public Statement

To the Mapuche Nation; Lof and Communities in Resistance and the national and international public opinion:

Kiñe: On Monday April 21, fulfilling 15 days of action, we, the political prisoners on hunger strike in the prison of Angol, have been visited by the Regional Governor Don Francisco Huenchumilla, accompanied by the Seremi of Justice and the regional director of the Gendarmerie.

Epu: We value the visit of the highest political authority

By Franz Fischer, Oakland, California2nd PUBLIC STATEMENT ANGOL PRISON

We, the Mapuche political prisoners in Angol prison, who are currently on hunger strike, declare the following:

1._ We reaffirm our position of being on hunger strike, affirming our decision to go on till the end or until our demands are resolved by the government.

2._ Up to this day Wednesday, April 16th, we have had a significant drop in weight from when we started our action on April 7t

January 9, 2014
The Criminal Court of Angol absolved Werken Daniel Melinao of the charges that accused him of Sergeant Hugo Albornoz’s murder in April 2012, during a violent raid in the Wente Winkul Mapu Community in Lof Chekenko. Mapuche community members gathered outside the court house to carry out a ceremony.
The decision was presented this morning after reading the verdict. The verdict was divided, two against one, in which

TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION
Faced with the unfair and discriminatory sentence of three years 15 months determined last November 19, 2013 by a Chilean court against our community member JOSÉ ANTONIO ÑIRRIPIL PÉREZ, imputed in the year 2009 under the Anti-Terrorism Act, as a minor, for an alleged attack on the Estate Brasil, we, as the ÑIRRIPIL PÉREZ family of LOF MUKO denounce:
1) The false accusations made ​​by the prosecution to the community members of o

29 Oktober 2013
Public Statement No. 2

After 17 days of the occupation of the estate El Canelo by Lof El Malo, Ranquilhue Chico and Choque, commune of Tirúa, the balance achieved after the Nguillatún, last Thursday October 24, reveals the selfless unity as shown by various Communities in Resistance in the province of Arauco.

It is clear once again that the number one enemy of the Mapuche is the forestry capitalism, that in this territory of Wallmapu exceeds 50% of o

Wallmapu , October 23, 2013

Public Statement by the Mapuche communities Mallekoche and Antonio Pañitrur of Bajo Malleko denouncing the following to the national and international public opinion:

Given the refusal of the Prosecution of Collipulli to receive the family of the murdered peñi Rodrigo Melinao who today went to request information on the progress of the investigation, we consider that this act is a slap in the face of those seeking justic

ANGOL, OCTOBER 17, 2013

From the prison in Angol, we, Fernando Millacheo and Cristian Levinao, Mapuche Political Prisoners, greet you and inform to the Mapuche People, social organizations and the national and international public opinion that:

Kiñe: We announce that since Tuesday October 15, 2013, at 12.00 we have responsibly assumed a hunger strike for an indefinite period, with the aim of achieving the annulment of the trial which condemns us unjustly to 15 years and 1

Temuko, OCTOBER 13, 2013

Yesterday the afternoon, José Mariano Llanca Tori was transferred from the jail of Angol, to the Hospital of the Town, the result of a INTESTINAL BLEEDING caused by the BREACH OF A VEIN IN THE ESOPHAGUS, he consequently suffered fainting spells, vomiting and loss of consciousness. We reiterate that these symptoms have occurred repeatedly in recent months, endangering his life.

We publicly denounce that José Mariano Llanca Tori was the victim of vi

Wall Mapuche Temucuicui, October 10, 2013

Transferred to the jail of Angol were three of the five community members arrested yesterday after the huge police operation in which police forces destroyed virtually everything in its path and, especially productive community plantings within the estates Nilontraro, La Romana and Montenegro usurped by René Urban and Ruf and Zeit, lands claimed by the Communities Autonomous & Traditional Temucuicui, where they also seized tools and othe

Susanna Venegas Curinao, on the right side of the imageSource: http://alianzaterritorialmapuche.blogspot.nl/2013/10/testimonio-de-joven-madre-humillada-y.html

This is the testimony of the Mapuche woman of Temukuykuy, a victim of unlawful coercion, physical and verbal violence by a Chilean Armed Group (about a hundred members of the military police) on Tuesday, October 9. Taken to a police station where she would remain until Wednesday 10 when she was passed to the Courts on charges of

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Source: http://www.soychile.cl/Temuco/Policial/2013/10/09/205211/El-abogado-de-Daniel-Melinao-denuncio-que-la-fiscalia-adultero-un-video-para-inculpar-al-werken.aspx
 
This morning in the Court of Collipulli started the hearing on the preparation of the trial against Daniel Melinao, the werkén of Wente Winkul Mapu, accused of being co-author of the death of the policeman Hugo Albornoz, which occurred in April 2012 in the community Wente M

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

A violent raid was performed in the early hours of this morning into the Mapuche communities Temucuicui Autonomous and Traditional, in the Region of the Araucanía, in estates of private individuals René Urban and Ruf and Zeit, corresponding to Mapuche territories in recuperation, where for two years they have been carrying out a process of productive recuperation for them being part of their ancestral lands.

 • A large police contingent,

Source: http://wentewinkulmapuresiste.blogspot.nl/2013/10/ante-preparatoria-de-juicio-contra.html
Tuesday October 8, 2013

The Community Wente Winkul Mapu of the sector Chekenko, Ercilla, declares to the Mapuche Nation and the public opinion the following:

Kiñe: For tomorrow, October 9, 2013, is fixed the Preparation for Trial against our Werken Daniel Melinao, accused of being a coauthor in the death of a policeman. We extend the call to those who can approach the cou

Monday October 7, 201
Source: http://meli.mapuches.org/spip.php?article3093
By Commission of Communications / / Campaign to Free All Mapuche Political Prisoners

The Lof Rofue Ñi Wekeche Aukinko, before the beginning of the trial on October 8, 2013 against five members of our Lof, including our Machi, we wish to point out to our Mapuche People, the national and international society the following:

- On August 1, 2012 there was carried out a violent eviction at th

October 3, 2013
Source: http://mapuexpress.org/se-suspende-juicio-oral-simplificado-en-contra-de-ernesto-chachallo-painemil/

This October 1 the simplified trial hearing against Mapuche community member of Yeupeco, Ernesto Chachallao Painemil, should have take place at the Court of Warranty in Temuco. However, at the request of counsel for the Government of Chile, Javier Jara Müller, who argued that he could not count with his witnesses in order to develop the theory of the case

Kiñe: Mari mari pu peñi, mari mari pu lamien, I announce to the public opinion that today, October 4th of 2013, I am held one year and one month imprisoned in the prison of Chol Chol accused by a setup of the prosecutor Luis Chamorro, who only wants to destroy my people and prosecute the Mapuche youth's to imprison them, including Mapuche minors and other peñis who struggle, like he does with Eric Montoya,
who is more than a year in hiding accused by a political setup of this anti Mapuc

October 1, 2013

I, Jose Mariano Llanca Tori, Mapuche Political Prisoner of the Autonomous Community of Temucuicui, held in Angol Prison for 1 year and a half, unjustly sentenced to 6 years and a half as a measure of Chilean state repression towards our territorial recovery process as a Mapuche community, declare as follows:

• From the 25th of August I have requested of the Gendarmerie to grant me prison benefits because of my serious health condition. Because since May I

Tuesday October 1, 2013  
By Commission of Communications / / Campaign to Free All Mapuche Political Prisoners

SUPREME COURT ANNULS TRIAL AGAINST WEICHAFE RODRIGO MELINAO AND CRISTIAN LEVINAO PREPARATORY HEARING OF WERKEN DANIEL MELINAO IS SUSPENDED

Today, the Supreme Court announced the ruling on the appeal filed against the judgment that condemned our recently assassinated weichafe Rodrigo Melinao, and Mapuche political prisoner Cristian Levinao, t

Angol, September 30, 2013

PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE PRISON OF ANGOL Luis Marileo Cariqueo and Leonardo Quijón, Mapuche Political Prisoners from the prison of Angol, inform the Mapuche people and the national and international public opinion the following:

Kiñe: We've been in this prison of Angol, one year and one month, accused of the murder of settler Hector Gallardo Aillapan, a crime for which we declare ourselves innocent. Our prison is due to the political persecutio

September 28, 2013

The Community Wente Winkul Mapu from Lof Chekenko declares to the local and international community that:

Kiñe: We express our full support to the Werken Daniel Melinao, who is the traditional authority of our community, and support his role as a leading social activist of our Mapuche Nation.

Epu: This coming Monday, September 30, starts the oral pre-trial hearing against our Peñi, so now we extend the call to all those who sympathize with ou