The human rights crisis in the country has worsened and are now 21 people detained erratically in recent weeks by the government of Evo Morales Ayma.

These arrests occur for political reasons, the case in most instances of militants or leaders of regional civic movements:

14 confined in the wake of the declaration of state of siege in the department of Pando: Leopoldo Fernandez, Hugo Apaza Salonero, Gualberto Peace dirt, Felipe Brigabriel Villarroel, Gabriel Delgadillo Vargas, Jose Salinas Bazan, Ruben Franco Tunø, Mirtha Sosa's Chalar ( photo), Adhemar War Herrera, Claudio Franco Égüez, Osvaldo Valdivia, Nestor Rivero da Silva, Agapito and Vira Willame Misuko. These confinements do not meet the minimum standards of due process, a clear case of situations of political imprisonment. Most of those are in solitary confinement and the few that have managed to talk reported serious violations of their fundamental rights, including torture, looting, death threats and, in the case of the police officer Mirtha Sosa, repeated sexual abuse. The Supreme Court of Justice has sued the executive branch to transfer the prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernandez, the capital of the republic, Sucre, for the corresponding case in court. The government has disobeyed the court order and keeps the prefect pandino confined in the city of La Paz, obstructing justice and preventing the impartial clarification of the violent clashes occurred in the town of El Porvenir.

7 illegal detentions in the departments of Santa Cruz and Tarija. Five young Cruceños (Luis Marquez, Lisandro Perez, Raul Vargas Valdivia, PR and Ricardo Fermin PM), several of them militants autonomy, were arrested without the presence of fiscal and violating their homes at night. At first they were accused of having assaulted the former Commander of Police Department, Wilga Wafers, but subsequently changed the charges to crimes of theft. The real motive of these unfair arrests seem to be the participation of some of them in making public institutions, to protest the confiscation of parts of the Direct to Hydrocarbons Tax (IDH). In Tarija, a group of hooded men who identified themselves as agents of the Ministry of the kidnapped civic activist Juan Carlos Rios, who was reportedly moved to the city of La Paz. The latter is the illegal detention of the leader of the Civic Chaco, Jose Vaca, also sent in an irregular manner to the seat of government, without regard to the jurisdiction of the District Prosecution Office of Tarija.

In these cases must be added the attempted kidnapping of the mayor of Boyuibe, Alejandrina Vacaflor, 500 exiles pandinos refugees in Brazil and the confirmation by police authorities of the existence of a list of 24 arrests for conduct Branko Marinkovic, Roberto Gutierrez, David Sejas, Alfredo Saucedo, Ana Melena, Ricardo Shimokawa, Jose Luis Sanchez, Arab Iran, Danilo Huari, Abel Janco, Ignacio Janco, Fermin Terrazas, Luis Alberto Rojas, Jose Luis Forero, Julio Villalobos, Edgar Manu, Javier Vaca, Alan Davis, Munoz dressed Walter Sobrino, Tony Gomez, Franz Elvis, and Franco Asquis "Lilico" Apuri.

HUMAN RIGHTS-BOLIVIA FOUNDATION expresses its condemnation of political persecution and demand due process for all detainees, the lifting of the State of Siege in Pando, an immediate end to the confinement and a truly impartial investigation of the facts of El Porvenir .

We run an urgent call for international observers present in Bolivia to pay attention to these violations of law and fundamental rights of citizens.