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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|

One year after the approval of the General Law against Torture, institutions of the highest level breach and violate the rule

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 [...]

2019-06-27T17:07:00-05:00June 25th, 2018|
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