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Mexico: Attack on shelter for migrants in Mexico: Further ...
2 November 2009

Staff at a shelter for undocumented migrants in north-eastern Mexico have received repeated threats. The migrants staying at the shelter and the staff working there ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/057/2009

Mexico must investigate torture of two peasant farmers | Amnesty ...
28 October 2009

Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation.

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Mexico: Two men tortured in Mexico
27 October 2009

Two men, both members of a peasant farmers' organization in Chiapas state, southern Mexico, have been tortured in custody after being arrested without a warrant ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/056/2009

Demand justice for killing of journalist in Mexico | Amnesty ...
23 October 2009

On 27 October 2006, US video journalist Brad Will was shot and killedas he filmed clashes in Oaxaca City.

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Mexico: Villagers Threatened
16 October 2009

The inhabitants of a village in southern Mexico have been attacked repeatedly by a group of armed men, who have now chased away the police officers who were meant ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/055/2009

Mexico: Mexican environmental campaigner shot
13 October 2009

Male environmentalist Jesús Sánchez de la Barquera has been shot and wounded outside his home in Mexico State, near the Mexican capital, Mexico City. He had been ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/054/2009

Mexico: Migrants threatened and attacked in Mexico
9 October 2009

UA: 277/09 Index: AMR 41/053/2009 Mexico Date: 09 October 2009. URGENT ACTION. MIGRANTS THREATENED and attacked in MEXICO. Migrants ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/053/2009

Mexico: Human rights lawyer threatened: Gustavo de la Rosa ...
5 October 2009

Human rights lawyer Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson has been threatened with death because of his work in charge of the Ciudad Juárez office of the Chihuahua State ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/052/2009

Mexico must not repatriate injured migrants | Amnesty ...
1 October 2009

The three men were part of a group of seven undocumented migrants from El Salvadorand Ecuador who where shot at by Mexican security forces as theycrossed into the ...

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Mexico: Investigation needed after migrant shot dead
1 October 2009

A group of seven irregular migrants travelling through Chiapas state were shot at by members of the security forces. One migrant was killed and all other migrants ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/051/2009