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Movements Demand That Chile Free Mapuche Indigenous Leader

Machi Linconao held by Chilean police | Photo: Mapuche Indigenous – Twitter
TelesurTV, August 18, 2016
Marchi Linconao has been jailed by Chile since 2013 but the evidence that was used to detain her using an anti-terror law remains suspect, with the main witness retracting her statement.
Feminist and Indigenous movements in Chile are demand the freedom of Machi Francisca Linconao – an important spiritual leader of the Mapuche people – as human rights groups take her case to the United Nations. Read the rest of this entry