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Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against Landless People Movement (MST)

Last June 17, about 300 landless (the vast majority of them women, children and elderly) were forcibly evicted from two camps of the "Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Terra" (MST), located on leased and private land -therefore legally occupied-  in the vicinity of Fazenda Guerra, in Coqueiros do Sul, Northern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The judiciary of Carazinho issued the eviction order after the Attorney General's office of Rio Grande do Sul filed a complaint against MST on June 11. In this complaint, the Attorney General accuses MST of crimes against the national security and characterizes MST as a para-military organization which ought to be dismantled. 

The Emergency Network of FIAN and La Via Campesina has launched an Urgent Action on this case.

See and participate in the Urgent Action