DEMONSTRATION FOR HUGO BLANCO AT PERUVIAN EMBASSY IN PARIS
Some 400 demonstrators turned out December 14 to shout in front of the Peruvian embassy in Paris in behalf of Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian peasant leader threatened with a death sentence because he appealed a 25-year prison sentence to the Supreme Council of Military Justice in Lima.
The crowd demanded an immediate amnesty for Hugo Blanco and all the political prisoners in Peru who have been incarcerated because of participation in antiimperialist struggles. ;
One of the demonstrators was delegated to present a message to the embassy indicating the sentiments of those participating in the action. :
The rally lasted twenty minutes before the police arrived (such demonstrations are illegal in Paris) and then dispersed without any incidents.
The organizers of the demonstration were the Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire, the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (French section of the Fourth International), the Mouvement des Jeunes Anarchistes, the Revolutionary Marxist Tendency of the Fourth International, Voix Ouvriére (Union Communiste) and Pouvoir Ouvrier.
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