Mexico City and San José, Costa Rica, 21 December 2018. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) published today the judgment of November 28, which declares the responsibility of Mexico for the gross human rights violations committed against 11 women, who were illegally and arbitrarily detained, and who suffered physical, psychological, and sexual torture, as well as [...]
The decree of the President is a “new phase” for the Ayotzinapa families Federal agencies must collaborate extensively with the investigation. “Finding the truth is an affair of State. There won't be impunity,” says AMLO. “Signing the decree is just the starting point. Keep walking [...]
The phenomenon of sexual torture against detained women has not been sufficiently analyzed in Mexico, while the role of the State has been almost absolute passivity. However, academic bodies and civil society organizations have traced new routes to discover it. During the last four years, at Centro Prodh we have heard of more than [...]
Victims’ Families and Organizations: Decision of Single Tribunal Threatens Truth and Justice Mexico City, July 18, 2018. – Today, the Third Unitary Tribunal of the Nineteenth Circuit, under Magistrate Sabino Pérez García and headquartered in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, published an accord, which found that “the motion for legal impossibility filed by the Attorney General’s Office [...]
Mexico City on June 25, 2018. This June 26, International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, marks one year since the publication of the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish Torture and Other Treaties or Penalties Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading (General Law). In spite of the advances in the matter, high-level [...]
One year after the publication of the investigation "Spy Government: Systematic monitoring of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico" and the filing of a formal complaint with the Attorney General's Office (PGR) for acts of espionage through the use of Pegasus malware, impunity has prevailed. During this year, the conviction has been strengthened [...]
Mexico is facing a crisis of Human Rights violations, corruption, and impunity. This diagnosis, first suggested by civil society, has now been adopted by eminent Mexican political actors and by the most important international human rights organizations, ranging from the Inter-American Commision on Human Rights (IACHR) to the Office of the United Nations High [...]
WHO IS HE? Sergio Sánchez Arellano sells candy and lives in the State of Mexico, where he has five children ranging in age from 10 to 16 years old. Sergio, a Mazahua indigenous person, was accused of first degree murder and attempted robbery in a trial filled with irregularities on top [...]
The struggle to eradicate torture in Mexico faces enormous difficulties. The generalized, persistent, and unpunished use of torture is one of the principle facets of the country’s ongoing human rights crisis and has been the subject of numerous expressions of concern from international bodies. Unfortunately, torture is a mainstay of the Mexican criminal justice [...]
On the night of September 26, 2014, in Iguala, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, one of the most emblematic episodes of human rights violations in the recent history of our country occurred. The results were brutal: the enforced disappearance of 43 young students who are still missing; six people killed, including three Ayotzinapa [...]
