·         Far from being clarifying and eradicated, forced disappearances are increasing in a country under a situation of a "war against organized crime" and against those that clearly dissent against the regime

·         The State is obliged to repair and guarantee human rights, investigating the disappearances at the hands of elements of the Army and other state bodies, to properly legislate on forced disappearance, to end impunity and to repair the victims and their families

In the frame of the International Week of the Detained-Disappeared, the subscribing organizations condemn the enforced disappearances that the Mexican Government, at various times, has committed and encouraged against those who oppose from the governing regime’s ideologies.

Forced disappearances have not been eradicated with the passage of time. While the time known as "Dirty War", characterized by disproportionately high level of violence used by the Mexican armed forces and intelligence apparatus against student movements and armed social movements has finished, the brutality of those times has not decreased. In recent years there have been conducted multiple disappearances attributed to different organs of the State, without being credible explanations or reliable research so far.

Today, at a press conference held at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Centre, this Center and the community of the Master of Human Rights of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) made public the submission of two memorial amicus curiae to Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice to express their views related to the legal case of the 12 political prisoners of San Salvador Atenco.

Mexico City, May 12, 2010

• * After visiting the country, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture proved that the broad powers of the Office of the Public Prosecutor lead to acts of torture.
• * Medical certificates are falsified to cover up traces of torture received at the time of the arrest and transfer to the place of detention.
• * Those under arraigo are beaten; women are sexually abused.
• * Torture and inhumane conditions in prisons increase violence.
  
  After a visit in 2008, during which the Subcommittee visited 24 detention centers in Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon and Oaxaca, the UN body issued an 87 pages-long report in 2009 in which it identified numerous structural flaws in the Mexican criminal justice system that encourage the commission of torture. One year after, the State has finally released the text (which it sought to keep confidential) as a result of an action instituted by the Network before the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI).