The Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation made a judicial presentation this Thursday to ensure that they are removed the police officers from the door of the Buenos Aires schools affected by seizures or other student protests. official sources reported.
The presentation -in the form of habeas corpus- became known at a time when at least 13 schools in the city of Buenos Aires were taken in demand of better food and against the defects of the building infrastructure and the obligation to do work practices in companies, while in another seven overnight stays were registered.
The decision of the Secretary of Human Rights follows the complaints that the Government of Buenos Aires made against families of students who participate in the seizures, who were demanded a sum of 1.5 million pesos for each day of protest.
Meanwhile, the educational community of the Escuela Normal Superior Lenguas Vivas Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg known as “tongues“, made a symbolic hug to the establishment.
Symbolic embrace of the educational community to “Lengüitas”, which continues to be taken by the students
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For its part, the City Ombudsman called the Buenos Aires Ministry of Education, school directors and students to a meeting to “Generate a space for mediation and dialogue”without the Buenos Aires authorities having appeared.
In the complaint made by the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, it is specified that the police presence at the doors of the schools where the protests take place represents “a threat to the personal freedom” of the students.
According to the photos, videos and the accompanying journalistic note, the police – in addition to verifying who enters and leaves the schools – “take photos of the students, record videos and require information from them,” adds the text presented .
In the letter, it was stated that the students “are mostly minors who cannot be detained or charged for alleged violations”so that the police presence “only pursues an intimidating effect” so that the students “stop exercising the right to petition the authorities”.
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The police presence at the doors of the schools and in the private homes of the parents of the students to notify them of alleged misdemeanor crimes, was made possible by the prosecutor María Laura Presedo, before a presentation by the City government.
“The most elementary principle of legality prevents sanctioning or even charging parents ‘who do not pick up their children,'” the Secretary stressed, and assured that “students are not punishable either for being under 18 years of age and acting in the legitimate exercise of a right”.
“We are facing the beginning of a misdemeanor case lacking legal basis that seems to have the sole objective of causing fear and disciplining parents and students, being recklessly visited by police personnel in their own homes”said the secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti.
The claim began last Friday when the students of the Mariano Acosta School from the Balvanera neighborhood of Buenos Aires decided to take the school in disagreement with the quantity and quality of food they received, the infrastructure failures and the mandatory imposition of labor practices in companies.
The Buenos Aires government, through the directors, identified some of the parents of children who were involved in the protest and sent the complaints to their homes through the police. Meanwhile, some seized schools denounced that They suffered power outages.
The Minister of Education of CABA, Soledad Acunaalso announced a fine of 1.5 million pesos for each day of taking and stressed that as the days of protest are not counted as justified absence, the students were in danger of losing their regular status
The Buenos Aires Ombudsman organized workshops on Thursday so that parents know how to act in the face of these complaints and with the students they will organize themselves next week to talk about the issue of food and labor practices in companies.
During the symbolic hug for Lengüitas, Julia, president of the student union, said that “Beyond that we want to have an approach to the world of work, it is not the ways. The internships are not as it had been planned.”
And he pointed out: “Some classmates (from this school) went to an international hotel to do language practices (because it is a bilingual school) and ended up washing the dishes. The hotel had no idea that we were going to go.”
In his turn, the National Secretary for Children, Adolescents and Family, Gabriel Lerner, questioned the attitude of the Buenos Aires Government in relation to the protests in public schools and recalled that student participation and organization “are protected in Law 26,877 of Creation and operation of the Student Centers”.
In a note addressed to the City’s Children’s Rights Council, Lerner defended the right to participation of children and adolescents in the areas where they develop and recalled that this principle “is set forth in the regulations in force in our country.”
“Adolescents have the right to petition and associate, and there is no legal basis whatsoever to charge parents criminally or in misdemeanor terms,” Lerner said, adding that “the coercive exercise of adults responsible for the crimes is alarming.” girls and boys, as a method of control and restriction of freedom of expression and participation of students”.
The Buenos Aires Ombudsman sought agreements with students and families for taking
Students from schools that lead the shots, their families and authorities from those schools, today sought to generate “a space for dialogue to generate consensus and agreements” organized by the Ombudsman’s Office of Buenos Aires, which also summoned authorities from the Ministry of Education, who did not attend .
Muiños stressed that “for us it is an advance that the Ministry calls us to participate, even if it is listening, and thus be able to see what they are chatting with the students, and how seriously they are taking this problem that is not generated by the shots in yes, but because of all the deficiencies that the educational system is tending in the City of Buenos Aires”.
“We understand that the forceful measure adopted by the boys and girls was the last one left for them to be made visible and listened to,” Muiños said, recounting the anguish that the public force brought to the students’ house.
Muiños stressed that “in today’s meeting we share that we are working on a strategy together with the Public Ministry of Defense” due to the complaints received by the families.
In this regard, the ombudsman communicated that for advice, the parents of the notified students can communicate and be represented by the public defense in the Criminal, Misdemeanor and Misdemeanor Ombudsman’s Office No. 4 in Bartolomé Miter 1735, 6th floor. Telephone: 7091-2773 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. or email: [email protected].
They also agreed to organize work tables with students and directors for food and school takeovers for next week.
“We can agree or not with the takeover, what cannot be done is deny political participation, on the contrary, it must be valued because that is how democracy is built,” Muiños stressed.
We present a preventive habeas corpus so that the police can be withdrawn from the schools with student protests, considering that the young people cannot be charged with contravention and are exercising their rights.
Here the statement ? https://t.co/YpOn12N26T pic.twitter.com/XyXpg7NLSP— Human Rights Secretariat (@SDHArgentina) September 29, 2022
