Mexico

Human Rights in UNITED MEXICAN STATES

Mexico: Human Rights Defenders in Danger
29 June 2009

Leading human rights defender Diego Cadenas Gordillo has been followed by men in cars, who have photographed him. Human rights defenders followed in this way have ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/035/2009

Mexico: Fear for safety
26 June 2009

Margarita Martín de las Nieves, Santiago Ponce Lola and Modesta Laureano Petra, all active members of an indigenous rights organisation, were attacked by a gunman ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/033/2009

Mexico: Fear for safety
22 June 2009

Soldiers went into three rural communities in the southern state of Guerrero between 9 and 13 June 2009, and tortured, shot at, threatened and harassed adults and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/031/2009

Mexico: Fear for safety / Death threat
11 June 2009

Human rights activists, many of them Indigenous activists, from Guerrero State, Mexico, continue to be at high risk of attacks, in spite of orders by Inter American ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/030/2009

Mexico: Further Information on Torture / Threats / Legal Concern ...
3 June 2009

On 8 May, 8 men of the Tzeltal indigenous community of San Sebastian Bachajón, Chiapas state, were committed for trial. Since then charges against one of the men ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/029/2009

Mexico: Fear for safety: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (f)
1 June 2009

Since 12 May 2009, an armed man has been photographing and keeping watch on Lydia Cacho Ribeiro’s home and car in Cancún, Quintana Roo state. Lydia Cacho is a well ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/028/2009

Mexico: Further information on enforced disappearance / fear for ...
29 May 2009

The bodies of the four people named in this action were found on 5 May 2009 in a deep ravine in the town of Pilcaya, Guerrero state, about 60 kilometres from Cuernavaca ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/027/2009

Mexico: Further Information on Fear for safety / Fear of torture ...
28 May 2009

The charred bodies of Miguel Alejandro Gama Habif, Israel Ayala Martínez and Aarón Rojas de la Fuente, were found 15km south of the town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/026/2009

G-20 must set the example and clean up their human rights record ...
28 May 2009

Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead byexample and show real commitment ...

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Mexico: Further Information on Fear for safety
7 May 2009

Oaxacan political activist Marcelino Coache and his family are still being harassed: his wife received a threatening message on her mobile phone on 25 April, as ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/025/2009