Several Mexican NGOs reported today that there is a pattern repeated in arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders and urged the Government to address five resolutions of the United Nations in this area in recent years.
“Without a doubt, these five resolutions issued by the UN by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention puts us on the table a pattern” when it comes to human rights defenders human, he said at a news conference activist Yesica Sanchez.
In the event where the five arbitrary arrests of activists from 2013 to the date obtained UN resolution, the deputy director of the Consortium for Dialogue and Oaxaca Equity presented exposed that the Mexican government “has generated a process and a role model.”
This ranges from the performance of local or federal prosecutors to arbitrary and illegal detentions, which are “the vice of origin” of such arrests, after pointing out that these five cases “they are just paradigmatic” a recurring problem in the country.
Ante “new stage” of the federal government considered it “regrettable” that are international institutions who denounce human rights violations, rather than agencies such as the National Commission on the Rights Humanos (CNDH) of Mexico or commissions of each state dedicated to this work.
On the other hand, it claimed that these agencies, sometimes, are dedicated to “delegitimize” and “stigmatize” political prisoners.
The process of defamation and abuse continues Sanchez continued in prison because he moved these people to high security prisons where they receive “cruel and inhuman treatment” they and their family when they visit.
The Mexican government has been notified from 2014 to December 2015 five official views of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN in which it considered that there were irregularities in criminal proceedings of these human rights defenders.
Therefore, NGOs “We denounce the Mexican State to report publicly to the follow-up will give these five opinions,” they said.
“Mexico is a major challenge and a challenge on how to compliance with international commitments signed,” said Sanchez.
recalled that in each resolution argues why are human rights violations and arbitrary arrests are.
organizations also called for the release of the three people who are still in prison without sentence of five cases presented today to the media.
They set the example of the defense counsel of the rights of Librado indigenous Baths, arrested at his home without search warrant in August 2013 and against one of their minor children .
In prison, due to beatings by the authorities during his arrest and interrogation, he lost one of his eyes, which had recently been operated, and the other only maintains 30 % vision, denounced this act his partner Eva Rivero.
Excels the case of Mayan journalist Pedro Canche, who already was released, which was locked of course sabotage, “a broad and ambiguous crime”, while he was covering a demonstration in a village the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, highlighted from the NGO Article 19.
in the nine months of his confinement was transferred to a module highly dangerous, where he was beaten and harassed by guards , being injured spine.
On May 29, 2015 was released after a judge ruled faults due process and irregularities in the investigation.
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