From: Afapp : [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Communist Militant Arrested, Held Incommunicado and "Disappeared" ================================================== In the early hours of July 30th, at 4 a.m., eight policemen broke into the home of the anti-fascist militant XOAQUIN VIEITES SANTOS in Cambados (Galicia), taking him away under arrest under the anti-terrorist law. Up until now, not a single line of commentary has been published concerning this detention in any medium of communication nor in any press agency. Xoaqu�n, who is 48 years old, is being held absolutely incommunicado by order of the Central n� 1 of the Audiencia Nacional. This morning, not even the most minimal information concerning his situation or the charges he is facing was issued to his lawyers or his family. Vieites was in prison for 14 years from 1977 to 1991 for being a militant of GRAPO. He was one of the 12 Spanish political prisoners to whom the fake "amnesty" was not applied. He was detained once again in 1994 for being a militant of the PCE(r), and remained in prison for six months before being released after acquittal. In the course of this new detention of this communist yesterday in the middle of the night, the police took a box of books and magazines. We are very worried at this time about the absolute information and police silence concerning this new detention of an anti-fascist militant, as this absolute silence and lack of communication which we are being subjected to makes us consider that bad treatment and torture - which are the common in this type of detention - will one more ingredient of fear and terror to be applied to political dissidents in this State, which with this actions can only be described as fascist and repressive. We demand immediate freedom for this communist militant and the repeal of all the different types of fascist laws which give consent to and which promote the detentions, the holding in a state of incommunicado, and the disappearance of political dissidents. July 31 AFAPP
