There are many questions for Milagro Sala to answer. Photo: Romina Santarelli taken from Argentinian Ministry of Culture Flickr account under Creative Commons License. The arrest of social activist and indigenous leader Milagro Sala on January 16 has been the cause of both international outcry and domestic protest in Argentina over the past few weeks. Thousands of people took to Plaza de Mayo in the capital city of Buenos Aires, protesting an arrest they believe violates civil liberties (including the right to assembly). Sala, who leads the Tupac Amaru Association and serves as a Parlasur lawmaker, was organizing protests in the province of San Salvador de Jujuy when she was arrested. She and many other social organizations set up camp in Belgrano Plaza in mid-December, opposite to the principal government building in Jujuy, protesting against reforms made by newly elected Governor Gerardo Morales to the distribution and control of social benefits. Before these reforms, Sala and her association were chiefly responsible for administering these resources. Officially, Sala was arrested on two charges: “inciting criminal behavior” among the people in the camp at Plaza Belgrano, and spreading “disorder” by lobbying cooperatives to oppose the governor's reforms by resisting the state's new requirements. The Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Argentina and Amnesty International Argentina were among the first to denounce her arrest: Lanzamos una Acción Urgente exigiendo la inmediata liberación de #MilagroSala https://t.co/F6hS1nn6DU #LiberenAMilagroSala .@luispazTA — Amnistía Argentina (@amnistiaar) January 19, 2016 Urgent Action demands the immediate release of Milagro Sala Milagro Sala es una luchadora q aporta organización y reivindicación social y política. Esas le dan miedo a la derecha#LiberenAMilagroSala — La Carancha (@LaCarancha) January 16, 2016 Milagro Sala is a fighter who brings organization and social and political revindication. The kind that the right fears. #FreeMilagroSala Mariela Belski, the executive director of Amnesty International Argentina, says it presents a clear “attempt to criminalize practices related to the exercise of the right to protest and freedom of expression.” Both the CELS and Amnesty International Argentina also say that her arrest warrant is vague and does not clearly define the charges against her. CELS, together with ANDHES (the Northwestern Argentine Lawyers for Human Rights and Social Studies), has already filed an application with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) on Sala's behalf. Shortly after her arrest, supporters took to Twitter with #LiberenAMilagroSala (#Free Milagro Sala). Users were quick to describe her as the first political prisoner in Argentina since President Mauricio Macri took power in December. Milagro Sala primer presa politica de Macri la Argentina. Se viene un #MegaAjuste #LiberenAMilagroSala #NOALAPERSECUCIONIDEOLOGICA — Fado (@fumandoangeles) January 19, 2016 Milagro Sala is the first political prisoner of Macri in Argentina. Some users suggested that her arrest was the result of discrimination because she is a woman and because of her indigenous origins. #LiberenAMilagro Su peor pecado es dotar de conciencia colectiva a un sector segregado por el racismo en un pseudo sistema de castas. — Pablo Martin Rossi (@PabloRArg) January 19, 2016 Her worst sin is bringing collective conscience to a group segregated by racism in a pseudo caste system. Lo q no le perdonan a @SalaMilagro es q sea india, mujer y q haya organizado a los humildes! #LiberenAMilagro — Ayma (@aymaramiro) January 19, 2016 What they can't stand about Milagro Sala is that she is indigenous, a woman, and she has organized the poor. Many in the international community have also denounced Sala’s arrest. Members of Parlasur at the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Parliament both condemned the arrest. Officially, newly elected President Mauricio Macri had little to do with her arrest, though he has endorsed the policing measure and met with Governor Morales at the Casa Rosada. Nonetheless, Twitter users have criticized Macri for hypocrisy, given his objections to the arrest of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez at the Mercosur conference just a few weeks earlier. The comparison when posed by an Argentine journalist caused Macri to storm out of a press conference in Davos. #MACRIMITOMANO https://t.co/sPOfg8SZlx PEDISTE EN MERCOSUR LIBEREN A PRESOS POLITICOS Y VOS TENES PRESA A @SalaMilagro #LiberenaMilagroSala — Carolita (-_-)╭∩╮ (@yo_guionbajo) January 19, 2016 You ask to free political prisoners while you keep Milagro Sala in custody.