Héctor Aníbal Bautista Flores
Blog: blog.hbautista.comArrested on 03 Nov 2010
Campaign Site: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Libertad-a-Hector-Bautista/174999792514076
Free Software developer and trainer of journalists in Chiapas, México, arrested for his work as independent journalist.
Hector Bautista Flores is a provider of hosting and domain services in Chiapas. Through sites like Users of free software in Chiapas has promoted the use of open operating systems. In addition to participating in the community of Debian Mexico is part of the community of Twitter users (@hbautista) in the state, active community member at Chiapatuit . Bautista Flores serves as the SysAdmin of CONECULTA, work as a public servant kept away from their other activities which has been publicly known and recognized expert in the community. Sometimes Bautista Flores has delivered workshops for journalists on the use of social networks and free software applications to their office for information. Interview with him published in a Chiapas’ newspaper: http://desmesuradas.blogspot.com/
With information from: Journalism in Chiapas Solidarity now.
On November 3 approximately 15 police officers and other governmental authorities broke into Héctor Bautista office, at the State Council of Arts and Culture in Chiapas, where he works as System Administrator.The officers did not show any judicial arrest warrant and seized all his equipment, CDs, USB keys and his car.
He is being accused of different crimes, including the distribution of child pornography (using his own email accounts, which is an absurd for any tech-savvy person) and he is under domiciliary arrest, he cannot leave Chiapas until the charges are cleared and he might face a trial and even prison, if sentenced. The journalist who wrote the article is very afraid and worried about his security.
While he was detained, Héctor was not allowed to contact his family or his lawyer for a period of 18 hours. Since his equipment was seized without a judicial warrant, any officer could supplant false evidence to incriminate him. It is important to say that Héctor is a Free Software activist, member of Chiapatuit - Twitter community in Chiapas and a volunteer in training people on free/open tools.
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