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This is the letter I wrote to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan asking him to set Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli free, those two bloggers have been condemned to more than two years in prison because of fabricated charges.

March 25th, 2010

Ilham Aliyev

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Office of the President
19 Istiqlaiyyat St.
AZ1066 Baku, Azerbaijan
office@apparat.gov.az

Dear President :

My name is Álvaro García, I am addressing to you, as a Spanish student who is also an activist pro-Human Rights and a blogger.

I am concerned about the imprisonment of the activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, which were sentenced on 11 November 2009 to two and two and a half years in prison respectively, charged with “hooliganism” after reporting being assaulted in a restaurant in Baku.

International Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, and the Swedish Presidency of the European Union, have all expressed their concern about the arrest of this two activist, having their doubts about the fairness of the trial they had, because of the use of practices like rejecting footage with evidence about the injuries they both suffered at the fight, and because of the fact that a week before their detention they had published a video which was critic with the government.

I am sure, and so is also the rest of the public opinion of the World, that this facts will be personally review by you, the President of Azerbaijan, and that they will be immediately and unconditionally released without any charges.

Please let me know when this two peaceful activists are set free or if there are any changes in their cases.

Sincerely Yours,

Álvaro García

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The letter was sent by email and was sent by certified mail.
The letter was sent on March 25th 2010.
There hasn’t been any acknowledgement nor response yet.

The letter, as Amnesty International asked, was sent to :
The President of Azerbaijan : office@apparat.gov.az ; president@president.az .
Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman : ombudsman@ombudsman.gov.az .
Azerbaijan’s Ambassador in Spain : madrid@mission.mfa.gov.az .

The email server of the domain “president.az” returned an error.
The email server of the Obudsman also returned and error, the disk quota of the user had been exceeded.
The email server of the domain “apparat.gov.az” also returned the disk quota error.

This is the letter I wrote to the Prince of Denmark asking him to release four Greenpeace activist that were detained at a non-violent protest in Copenhagen.

29 Decmber 2009

Frederik André Henrik Christian
Crown Prince of Denmark
Court of TRH The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark
Amalienborg
PO Box 2143
DK-1015 Copenhagen K
hoftele@kongehuset.dk

Your Majesty :

My name is Álvaro García, I am addressing to You, Your Majesty, as a Spanish citizen, a citizen that until a few weeks ago considered the country that You represent, the Kingdom of Denmark, one of the most advanced democracies in the world, and, without any doubt, one of the best countries in the world to live.

However, recently, because of what happened at COP 15, many of us have seen some actions on behalf of the Danish Government that have disappointed us.

For example, indiscriminate police strikes, although, in some cases, the protesters were aggressive, and their detention might have been fair and justified.

But even given the fact that some protesters were aggressive, most of the European public opinion thinks that it’s not enough motive to ride them by bus, to both violent and pacific protesters, and get them into detention centers out of Copenhagen, where they suffered the treatment that I wish to put into consideration of Your Majesty : deprivation of the use of the bathroom, deprivation of medical attention, and deprivation of water.

I am specially addressing to Your Majesty this pledge because of the four Greenpeace activist -one of them Spaniard, because I am convinced that Your Majesty will take this matter into consideration and Your Majesty can help us forget this misunderstanding.

I am sure that Your Majesty will intercede in the release of the activists Juan López de Uralde, Nora Christiansen, Christian Schmutz and Joris Thijssen. Activist that, in a country that is envied for it’s high quality of life, and for their many rights and freedoms, could be condemned to an imprisonment of up to six years because of a non violent protest which only objective was to make an appeal to all world leaders meeting in Copenhagen.

I can only speak by myself, but I am convinced that this is the hope of a big part of the Spaniard and European society. That is the reason why we, the public opinion, are so sure that Your Majesty will intercede on behalf of the activist of Greenpeace.

Worldwide public opinion hopes that they are released to avoid that many of us, disappointed, will change our minds from considering Denmark the paradise of every ecologist to the nightmare of every pacifist or activist.

Confident in receiving from Your behalf, Your Majesty, a written reply, or, speaking on behalf of worldwide activist, we hope that Your Majesty can intercede in the release of the four activist retained, releasing them without charges.

Yours respectfully,

Álvaro García

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The letter was sent only by email because of the urgency of the action.
The letter was sent on December 29th 2009.
There was no acknowledgement.
There wasn’t any response either.

Esta es la carta que escribí al embajador de Dinamarca en España solicitandole la liberación de los activistas de Greenpeace detenidos en una reivindicación pacífica en Dinamarca.

22 de diciembre de 2009

Sr. Lars Theusen
Embajador de Dinamarca en España
Embajada de Dinamarca en España
Serrano 26 – 7º
28001 Madrid
madamb@um.dk

Su excelencia :

Mi nombre es Álvaro García, me dirijo a usted como ciudadano español, un ciudadano que hasta hace unas semanas consideraba al país que usted representa, Dinamarca, una de las democracias más avanzadas del mundo, y, sin duda, uno de los mejores países del mundo para vivir.

Sin embargo, recientemente, gracias a COP 15, muchos de nosotros hemos visto algunas acciones por parte del gobierno danés, que nos han decepcionado.

Por ejemplo, cargas policiales indiscriminadas contra manifestantes, aunque, en algunos casos, estos manifestantes fueran agresivos, y, posiblemente, estaba justificada su detención.

Pero aunque se de el hecho de que algunos manifestantes fueran agresivos, la mayoría creemos que no es motivo para montar a todos los manifestantes, tanto a los violentos como a los pacíficos, en autocares, sacarlos de Copenhague, llevarlos a centros de detención, y realizar algunas de las prácticas siguientes : privación a los detenidos del derecho a utilizar el baño, no proporcionarles atención médica, tenerlos durante horas sin comer, etc [1].

En especial hago este llamamiento por el caso de los activistas de Greenpeace -uno de ellos español, ya que las acciones y errores pasados no pueden ser rectificados, pero hacer las cosas correctamente depende, ahora mismo, solo de ustedes.

Usted, Sr. Embajador, como Embajador de España, nacionalidad de uno de los detenidos, puede ayudarnos a dejar en el pasado este asunto.

Por eso pedimos que interceda en la liberación de los activistas Juan López de Uralde, Nora Christiansen, Christian Schmutz y Joris Thijssen, activistas que, en un país que en Europa es envidiado por su calidad de vida, por sus derechos y por sus libertades, pueden ser condenados a seis años de cárcel por la realización de una acción no violenta cuyo único objetivo era el del llamamiento a la acción a todos los líderes mundiales reunidos en Copenhague.

Algunos nos preguntamos si no estarán intentando poner a estos activistas -repito, totalmente inofensivos, un castigo ejemplar por haberles dejado en evidencia al burlar la seguridad del evento.

Yo solo puedo hablar en mi nombre, pero estoy convencido de que esto es el sentir de gran parte de la sociedad española y europea : liberen por favor a los activistas de Greenpeace. Si no lo hacen, lo único que conseguirán es que su país pase de ser el sueño de todo ecologista a la pesadilla de todo pacifista o activista.

Espero su respuesta escrita o, hablando en nombre de todos los activistas, esperamos la liberación sin cargos de los cuatro miembros de Greenpeace retenidos.

Le reitero, Sr. Embajador, mis más respetuosos saludos.

Álvaro García.

[1] apareció en el periódico británico “The Guardian” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/copenhagen-protesters-freed

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La carta fué enviada por email debido a la urgencia de la liberación.
Fué enviada el dia 22 de diciembre de 2009.
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