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Women of Atenco on the Judgment of the I/A Court H.R.

Download the sentence (Only in Spanish) “What’s most important is initiating the investigations. We won’t settle for less,” say survivors of sexual torture in Atenco The judgment of the Inter-American Court is an invaluable opportunity to tackle impunity and other key structural human rights problems. [...]

2019-02-11T12:44:05-06:00January 24th, 2019|

Mexican Judiciary Orders Investigation of Potential Criminal Liability of Officials of the Attorney General’s Office for Irregularities in the Ayotzinapa Case

A Federal Judge considers that the internal control investigation of the Attorney General's Office was neither exhaustive nor congruent, as it did not address several irregularities. The judge orders a new investigation into all the irregularities committed in the investigation of the Ayotzinapa case. Mexico City, 13 January 2019. The writ of amparo 195/2017 issued [...]

2019-03-13T19:03:47-06:00January 13th, 2019|

Historic Judgment of Inter-American Court Orders Mexico to Punish Repression and Torture in Atenco

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 [...]

2019-03-06T13:05:06-06:00December 21st, 2018|

After regrettably ruling in Ayotzinapa case, the Supreme Court should definitively declare the creaton of the Investigative Commission

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 [...]

2019-02-11T12:46:29-06:00July 20th, 2018|

Sergio Sánchez Arellano

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 [...]

2019-02-05T10:42:09-06:00January 24th, 2018|
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