Panama: Police Break Up Demonstration And Arrest Opposition Activists

Record ID: 3183

  • Title: Panama: Police Break Up Demonstration And Arrest Opposition Activists
  • Date: 28th March 1988
  • Summary: Baton-wielding police made scores of arrests in Panama City on March 28 after bursting into a hotel where an anti-government news conference was about to be held. The arrested people were opposition activists and foreign journalists. The raid followed a street demonstration by thousands of anti-government protesters calling for the resignation of Panama's military leader General Manuel Noriega on the eighth day of a general strike. Noriega, accused of drug-trafficking in the United States, refused to resign.
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  • Location: PANAMA CITY
  • Reuters ID: LDL0011MFC3KJ
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