A Year of Protests

This report, released by Amnesty International, documents Argentina’s 2024 as a “year of serious setbacks in the exercise of the right to protest.” The implementation of the so-called Anti-Picket Protocol marked patterns of repression and criminalization targeting dissenters. Based on interviews with protesters, human rights lawyers, medical workers, and journalists, the report recorded at least 15 protest actions during which the state resorted to excessive use of force; the corresponding numbers are alarming: 1,155 people injured; 33 individuals hit with rubber bullets in the head or face; 50 media workers injured; 73 people receiving criminal charges for their participation in the protests. Read the report here (in Spanish only).