Denials of Family Visits

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MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION

FOR THE RIGHT OF FAMILY VISITS

ARGENTINA

• Adolfo Perez Esquivel –  Nobel Laureate
• Beinusz Szmukler – President of the Argentinean Lawyers Association in Buenos Aires (AABA)
• Estella Carlotto – President  of the Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers
• Hebe de Bonafini – President of the Plaza de Mayo Mothers
• Nora Cortiñas – President of the Plaza de Mayo Mothers-Línea Fundadora
• Stella Calloni – Journalist and Writer
• Fray Antonio Puigjané –  Franciscan Priest from the Orden de los Capuchinos
• Atilio Borón – Sociologist, Member of the International Directory of Social Sciences Council of the UNESCO
• Graciela Rosemblum – President Argentinean League for the Rights of Mankind
• Carlos Zamorano –  Jurist, Secretary of the Human Right Lawyer Association Bs.As
• León Rozichtner – Philosopher, Writer, Konex Prize 2004

BELGIUM

• Father François Houtart – Priest and Sociologist. Director of the Tricontinental Center
• Kurt De Loor – Member of the European Parliament
• Bart Staes – Member of the European Parliament
• Eloi Glorieux – Member of the Flemish Parliament
• Paul Bekaert - Member of the Board of the Human Rights League and President of the Bruges Lawyers Association.

BOLIVIA

• Loyola Guzmán – Member of the National Assembly
• Antonio Peredo Leigue – Senator
• Demir Rafael Chávez González – Diplomat
• Rosario Valenzuela Sotomayor – Writer
• Jorge Sanjinés – Filmmaker

BRASIL

• Emir Sader – Executive Secretary of CLACSO (Latin-American Council of Social Sciences)
  Marilia Guimarães – Writer, member of the Brazil Chapter of In Defense of the Humanity

CANADA

• William Sloan – President of the American Association of Jurists (Canadian Brand)
• Arnold August – Writer and Researcher
• James Cockcroft – Writer
• David Suzuki – United Nations Medal on Environment 1985, Official Order of Canada 1976, Premium Kalinga on Sciences UNESCO 1986, President of David Suzuki Foundation.

CHILE

• Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia
• Hugo Gutiérrez – Human Rights Lawyer (Pinochet case), Professor of the School of Law, University of Arcis

ECUADOR

• Pablo Guayasamin Monteverde – President  Guayasamín Foundation
• Alfredo Vera Arrata – Former Ministry of Education, Writer and Journalist
• Marco Antonio Toscano Arroyo - Professor School of Administrative Sciences, central University of Ecuador
• Dax Toscano Segovia – Professor and Journalist

EGYPT

• Samir Amin – President of the Alternative World Forum

EL SALVADOR

• Salvador Sánchez Ceren –Vice-President of El Salvador, Professor
• Juan Carranza – Jurist

FRANCE

• Danielle Mitterand – President  Francia-Libertades Foundation
• Roland Weil – Jurist
• Ignacio Ramonet – Journalist and Writer
• Ramon Chao – Journalist and Writer
• Hernando Calvo Ospina – Journalist and Writer
• Sami Nair – Sociologist, Philosopher
• Salim Lamrani – Professor, Writer and Journalist.
• Father Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Gaillot – Former Catholic Bishop

GERMANY

• Herta Däubler-Gmelin - Former Federal Minister of Justice, Member of the Bundestag.
• Günter Belchaus - Jurist, former Counselor of the German Federal Ministry of Justice.

GREAT BRITAIN

• Father Geoffrey Bottoms – Catholic Priest
• Glenys Kinnock – Member of the European Parliament

GUATEMALA

• Rigoberta Menchú – Nobel Laureate
• Elmar Rojas – Former Minister of Culture, Plastic Artist

HUNGARY

• István Meszáros – Philosopher and Writer

ISRAEL

• Pedro Goldfarb – Professor Hebrew University, Member of the Kibutz Itzjak

ITALY

• Domenico Losurdo – Philosopher
• Marco Rizzo – Member of the European Parliament
• Matteo Carbonelli – General Secretary of the “Legal Union for the Tutelage of the Human Rights”, Professor of International Law
• Bianca Pitzorno – Writer
• Claudio Magris – Writer, Príncipe de Asturias Prize, 2004
• 36 Former Congress people and 18 Former Senators- XV Legislature of Italian Parliament
• Luciano Vasapollo – Sociologist, Writer
• Rita Martufi - Writer

MEXICO

• Yeidckol Polevnsky – Vice-President of the Mexican Senate
• Gilberto López y Rivas – Professor-Researcher of the National Institute of History and Anthropology, Journalist of La Jornada
• Hilda Venegas Negrete – Vice-president of the National Network of Leftist Lawyers of México, President of Women for Democracy
• Luís Hernández Navarro – Co-editor of opinion of “La Jornada “
• Padre Raúl Lugo Rodríguez – Catholic Priest
• Pablo González Casanova – Sociologist, International Award José Martí UNESCO 2003
• Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo – Representative, Professor of Political Sciences, Universidad Autónoma, México.

NICARAGUA

• Father Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann – President Pro-Tempore of the United Nation National Assembly, former minister of Foreign Relations, Catholic Priest
• Father Ernesto Cardenal – Catholic Priest, Writer
• Father Uriel Molina – Catholic Priest

PALESTINE

• Khaled Salama – Representative,  member of the National Palestinian Council, Honour President of the federation of Arab Entities of Latin America FEARAB-America

PARAGUAY

• Martín Almada– Jurist, Alternative Nobel Prize 2002

PERU

• Marco Martos Carrera – President of the Language Academy of Peru
• Hildebrando Pérez Grande – Poet and Writer, Casa de las Américas Award
• Gustavo Espinoza – Former Peruvian Congresist , former Secretary General of the Peruvian Workers Organization

PUERTO RICO

• Rafael Cancel Miranda – Poet and Independentist Fighter (was in US prisons for 25 years)
• Danny Rivera –Musician, Founder of the International Institute of Music and Plastic Arts.
• Pablo Marcano Garcia – Painter
• Gervasio Morales Rodríguez – Director of “Claridad”

SOUTH AFRICA

• Father Michael Lapsley – Director of the Institute for the Memory Recovery

SWEDEN

• Eva-Brit Svensson – Member of the European Parliament

SPAIN

• Rosa Regás – Writer,  Planeta Award 2001, Award of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents 2005,  Chevalier Order from the Legion d’ Honneur of France
• Ignasi Guardans – Member of the European Parliament
• Javier Sádaba – Philosopher
• Belén Gopegui – Writer
• Alfonso Sastre – Playwriter
• Father Benjamín Forcano – Priest
• Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo – Professor of International Private Law, Granada University
• Manuel Talens – Writer
• Carlos Martínez – Editor of “Rebelión”
• Santiago Alba Rico – Writer
• Juan Madrid – Novelist, Historian and Movie Director
• Juan Kalvellido – Caricaturist
• Manuel Bonmati – Secretary of the International Policy of the General Union of Workers (UGT)
• Joseba Echevarría– Coordinator of the International Commission of the General Union of Workers (UGT).
• Andrés Sopeña Monsalve – Writer, Professor of International Private Law of the Granada University
• Marcos Ana – Poet and Writer
• Diego Navarro – Sociologist

UNITED STATES

• Bishop Thomas Gumbleton – Former Catholic Bishop of Detroit
• Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell – Former Secretary General of the National Council of Churches of the United States
• Danny Glover – Actor
• Gayle McLaughlin – Mayor of Richmond, California
• Alice Walker – Writer
• Noam Chomsky – Linguist and Writer
• Howard Zinn – Historian and Writer
• Esteban Torres – Former US Congressman
• Wayne Smith – Former Chief of the US Interest Section in Cuba
• Michael Parenti – Author
• Angela Davis – Professor of History, California University, Santa Cruz
• Yury Kochiyama – Civil Right activist
• Peter Phillips - Professor Sociology, Director Project Censored
• Melvin MacKay - President of ILWU Local 10, San Francisco, California
• Dolores Huerta - Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers Union

VENEZUELA

• Deputy Emil Guevara Muñoz – Member of the Latin-American Parliament and National Coordinator of the Friendship and Solidarity Movement Venezuela-Cuba
• Deputy Amilcar Figueroa – Co-President of the Latin-American Parliament
• Stella Lugo de Montilla – First Lady of the State of Falcon and President of the Bolivarian Council of State First Ladies.
• Marelis Pérez Marcano – Member of the National Assembly
• Alicia Herrera – Journalist and Writer
• María León – Minister of Women Affairs
• Deputy Víctor Chirinos – President of the Venezuelan Parliamentary Group to the Latin-American Parliament and Vice President of the Latin American Parliament.