Archive - Ene 11, 2006

Hong Kong trial: 3 Anti-WTO protestors remained charged, 11 released and millions of farmers prisoners of the WTO policies

10 January, 2006
La Via Campesina
Press Release: La Via Campesina welcomes the release of 11 anti-WTO protestors today by the Kwun Tong Court in Hong Kong. However two members of the Korean Peasants League and one member of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions are still charged with unlawful and unrightful assembly following the December 17 protest organised by La Via Campesina against the WTO Ministerial Conference.

11 Released as Hong Kong Civil Society and Global Movements Pressure HK Government

10 January, 2006
By Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
At a police hearing on Jan 18, the Hong Kong government dropped charges against 11 of the 14 individuals it had detained in connection with the protests at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in mid-December. However, charges of unlawful assembly and unauthorized assembly have been formally made against three of the detainees: Kyung Kyu Yang, a vice president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), and In Hwan Park and Il Kwon Yoon of the Korean Peasants

Centam says trade pact stalled by medicine rules

10 January, 2006
By Mica Rosenberg, Reuters
Implementation of a new U.S.-Central American trade pact could be delayed by U.S. demands that its partners tighten their rules on cheap drugs that compete with the products of U.S. pharmaceutical firms.