Thousands of Argentineans rallied on Wednesday in front of the national congress to express their rejection of the package of laws approved by the senate. Police responded to the demonstration with a large security operation that included repression and arbitrary arrests against those who were exercising their right to express themselves. Our correspondent in Buenos Aires Santiago Corei with some of the witnesses and victims of that repression.
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00:00Thousands of Argentinians rioted on Wednesday in front of the National Congress to express
00:05their rejection of the package of laws approved by the Senate.
00:08Police responded to the demonstration with a large security operation that included repression
00:12and arbitrary arrests against those who were exercising their right to express themselves.
00:16Our correspondent in Buenos Aires, Santiago Rey, has all the details.
00:21More than 30 Argentinians suffered the attack that the government is carrying out against
00:26social protests.
00:28In this case in the context of the rejection of the law of bases, one of them is Santiago
00:33Adano, arrested without being part of any riot in front of Congress.
00:38We are offering our support.
00:42It is the way we found to try to untangle this unjust situation of our friend, who went
00:49to demonstrate and was arbitrarily arrested and remains unjustly detained, a person very
00:53much loved by his family and friends, always looking for ways to help others, with clear
01:01ideas, with a heart to help others and for everyone who knows him.
01:08This musician, who was dragged and suffocated by dozens of police officers, was arbitrarily
01:14and violently arrested as part of the government's plan that seeks to criminalize any expression
01:19of opposition.
01:23He was arrested, he was coming out of the subway to get his car that was parked outside
01:27the Congress.
01:28It is unfortunate.
01:31At this moment they are bidding a case against him, which is absolutely unfair.
01:38We are really worried because this is supposed to be a democracy.
01:41We have every right to express our opinions.
01:46In a statement, the government talked about an alleged coup attempt and the prosecutor
01:51Carlos Stornelli requested preventive detention for all those arrested, among them young students.
01:58Sasha is 24 years old, she is a student from the school center.
02:01We are members of the MST, we went to demonstrate in a very peaceful way.
02:06We never tried to make any kind of disturbance.
02:08It's crazy.
02:09We have to condemn, denounce and make this more and more massive because we can't allow
02:13these things to continue or allow the government to keep violating people's rights.
02:18The police infiltrated, as they always do.
02:21They infiltrate people in the demonstration to generate disturbance and in this way justify
02:26a larger scale repression and detain people who are not involved in any violent act.
02:31It is a tactic.
02:33We have been saying it since this government took office, that in order to try and pass
02:38the adjustments, to implement the surrender, the looting, the submission of our people,
02:44they have to resort to repression.
02:46And that's what they are doing, and that's what they are trying to do, in order to intimidate
02:50those who go out for their right.
02:53Everybody demands the immediate release of all detainees, while requesting that the conditions
02:57of tolerance and free expression be guaranteed in order to be able to demonstrate within
03:02a basic framework of democratic coexistence.