Federal Judge considers that the refusal of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico to send the Atenco case to the FGR is not duly justified and therefore violates the rights of the victims. San José, Costa Rica and Mexico City, November 29, 2020. Two years after the [...]
The local prosecutor's office seeks to avoid the unification of the criminal investigation in the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR, by its Spanish acronym). San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, Mexico, September 13, 2020. Almost two years after the notification of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) judgment in [...]
San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, May 3, 2020. Today marks fourteen years since the events of social repression, massive arbitrary detentions, and systematic use of torture - including sexual torture - by state and federal police forces in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco, State of Mexico, Mexico, without substantial progress in [...]
A year after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights´ judgment, the victims and their representatives call on the Mexican government to maintain its commitment and comply with the ordered reparations in their entirety. San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, Mexico, December 16, 2019. A year after the Inter-American Court of Human [...]
By complying with the judgment of the Inter-American Court, the Mexican government has the opportunity to reverse a decade of impunity. The UN Committee against Torture urged Mexico to comply with the judgment and raised the topic of sexual torture. Other women, such as Mónica Esparza -who has been imprisoned for 6 years-, have [...]
Mexico City, April 4, 2019. Today, the inter-institutional working group to implement the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) in the case of Women Victims of Sexual Torture in Atenco was officially formed. A delegation of the women and their legal representatives, as well as representatives of several federal [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]