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25 May 2010 Further information on UA 110/10 (10 May 2010) – Fear for safety (PDF) MEXICO – Community of San Juan Copala On 20 May, indigenous leader, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, and his wife, Cleriberta Castro Aguilar, were shot dead in their home in Yosoyuxi community, part of the “autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala” [...]

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By Marylou Noble, Group 48 Central America Regional Action Network Coordinator March 8th is International Women’s Day. I want to bring to your attention the case of women who were arrested as a result of their demonstration in defense of flower sellers in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, Mexico in 2006. Although this event occurred [...]

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Back in November, Central American RAN Coordinator Marylou Noble brought copies of letters to the Group 48 meeting that were addressed to the Mexican authorities in regards to the treatment of migrants in north-eastern Mexico. The meeting attendees gladly signed the letters and Marylou put them into the mail. About a month later, several members [...]

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28 July 2009 UA 202/09 – Torture MEXICO – José Natividad Zamora Gómez (m), aged 25 Andrés Zamora Gómez (m), aged 27 Jorge Hernández Jardón (m), aged 24 Soldiers broke into the home of the Zamora Gómez family in Morelos state, central Mexico, and tortured three people. The soldiers searched the house and found no [...]

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Last month, the Mexican Supreme Court confirmed that women in San Salvador Atenco suffered major physical and sexual abuse at the hands of police officers. But even with the affirmation of the highest court in Mexico, the women in Atenco are still waiting for these officers to be held accountable for their crimes. The current [...]

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