Trotskyists held in Peru | IMGpapers 1976

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have the army [of Smith] than Security and Constituent FIVE members of the Peruvian Socialist Workers Party (PST) are still being held in prison after raids on the PST's Lima headquarters on 22 April by State Security agents.

Thirty-one members of the party - a sympathising section ol lhe fourth Internalinal were held after the raids. They were all taken to the State detention where they were beaten and The arrests were answered by a number of immediate hunger strikes, Huge Blanco, a central leader of the Revolu tionary Workers Party (PRT)

deputy Assembly, Was one of those taking part.

The PRT (which is also a sympathising section Fourth International and the PST are currently engaged in A TUSKRE PrOCESS The huager strikes, together with telegrams protests from Swiss and Swedish MPs, secured the release of the WHOSE BE TOOSE PERSECUR TH it is particularly worrying that four of the five still being held are not Peruvian nationals and thus face deportation.

The BUSI NETHEL case concerns Lidia Vasquez, an Argentinian woman whose life would he in dunger if she was forced to return to her country of birth. Two Colombians are also being held.