Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:40:44 +0100 (WET DST) From: Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana Subject: Alert action. Chile. Alert action. Chile. PLEASE DIVULGE THIS MESSAGE. ILGA calls for an alert action against the government of Chile due to the recent police arrests of half a hundred gays in discotheques of Santiago de Chile. Police records were opened for the arrested people that were treated in a humilating manner: they were handled with surgical gloves and their arrest was broadcasted on television.=20 Jordi Petit, General Secretary of ILGA, and some other representatives of gay and lesbian organisations in Spain, handed over a protest letter for the mentioned acts to the Chile ambassador in Madrid. In this letter the Chile government is requested for the depenalization of homosexuality and the abolishment of article 365 of the Chilean penal code in which homosexual practice appears as a crime. We invite all gays and lesbians to send protest letters to the embassies of Chile in their respective countries.Jordi Petit, General Secretary of ILGA, and some other representatives of gay and lesbian organisations in Spain, handed over a protest letter for the mentioned acts to the Chile ambassador in Madrid. In this letter the Chile government is requested for the depenalization of homosexuality and the abolishment of article 365 of the Chilean penal code in which homosexual practice appears as a crime. We invite all gays and lesbians to send protest letters to the embassies of Chile in their respective countries.=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ILGA - International Lesbian and Gay Association=09 81 Kolenmarkt, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium=09 Phone/Fax +32-2-502-2471, E-mail: ilga@ilga.org=09=09 A federation of over 300 groups from 70 countries fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Contact us for more info! Here is a reproduction of the letter handed by ILGA and that can be used as a template. (English version below) -------- Madrid, 12 Mayo 1996 Excelentisimo Sr. Embajador: Ante las recientes detenciones policiales de 40 gays en la discoteca Quazar y de otros varios en la discoteca Fausto en la madrugada del pasado 4 de Mayo en Santiago de Chile, nos dirigimos a V.E. a fin de expresar nuestra mas rotunda protesta por este in calificable atropello de los Derechos Humanos.=20 Asi mismo expresamos ante V.E. nuestra indignacion por el trato vejatorio recibido por los detenidos en la comisaria por ser fichados, tratados con guantes quirurgicos y ante las camaras de television causando danyos irreparables a la vida privada de las personas.=20 Transmita V.E. nuestra mas energica protesta ante el Presidente de su pais, asi como la exigencia de la despenalizacion de la homosexualidad y derogacion del articulo 35 del Codigo Penal chileno.=20 Atentamente, Jordi Petit Secretario General de la ILGA Asociacion Internacional de Lesbianas y Gays. Con la adhesion de: Asociacion de Lesbianas y Gays de Cantabria (ALEGA) Asociacion por la libertad de la Vida Afectivo Sexual (ALVAS Castilla-La Ma= ncha) Colectivo de Gays y Lesbianas de Madrid (COGAM) Col.lectiu Lambda del Pais Valencia Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana SomoS (Sevilla) Xente Gay Astur (XEGA) ---- Madrid, May 12 1996 Your excellency the ambassador: The recent police arrest of 40 gays in the Quazar discotheque and of some others in the Fausto discotheque occurred at dawn of the recent May 4th in Santiago de Chile, we address your excellency in order to express our strongest protest for this unqualifiable outrage of Human Rights.=20 We also express in front of your excellency our indignation for the humiliating treatments received by the arrested people at the police station where their criminal records were opened; they were treated with surgical gloves in front of television cameras; causing unrepairable damage to the people=B4s private lives.=20 We request your excellency to transmit our deepest protest in front of the President of your nation, as well as the demand of depenalization of homosexuality and the abolishment of the article 365 of your country's penal code.=20 Jordi Petit General Secretary of ILGA International association of Lesbians and Gays. with the support of: Asociacion de Lesbianas y Gays de Cantabria (ALEGA) Asociacion por la libertad de la Vida Afectivo Sexual (ALVAS Castilla-La Ma= ncha) Colectivo de Gays y Lesbianas de Madrid (COGAM) Col.lectiu Lambda del Pais Valencia Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana SomoS (Sevilla) Xente Gay Astur (XEGA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana voice: 34-3-237 08 69 C/ les Carolines, 13 fax: 34-3-218 11 91 08012 Barcelona hot line: 900 601 601 (from Spain) Catalunya 34-3-237 70 70 (rest of the world) Spain mailto:cogailes@pangea.org http://www.pangea.org/org/cgl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ****************************************************************************** To subscribe to the list, email MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu the one line message 'subscribe homoradio'. 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