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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

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

The Mexican authorities should not forcibly repatriate three migrants shot and injured by security forces at the country's southern border, Amnesty International ...

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Mexico: Villagers in danger in southern Mexico
22 September 2009

People in the village of Ejido Jotolá, Chiapas state, southern Mexico, are at risk of attack from an armed group which is threatening people in the area. The group ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/049/2009

Freedom for Indigenous Mexican woman wrongly imprisoned for three ...
17 September 2009

Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mexican prisoner ofconscience Jacinta Francisco Marcial.

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Mexico: Freedom for Indigenous woman wrongly imprisoned for three ...
17 September 2009

Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mexican prisoner of conscience Jacinta Francisco Marcial, who was held in prison for three years after being falsely ...

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Mexico: Woman threatened by armed security guards: Agustina ...
16 September 2009

A Mexican campaigner living in the northern state of Chihuahua was threatened on 10 September by private security guards hired by local landowners. She and others ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/048/2009

Mexico: Activists under threat
10 September 2009

Community leader Eligio Rebolledo Salinas (m) has been shot by unidentified gunmen. Three of his male relatives were later arrested without a warrant. They had ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/047/2009

Mexico: Stop violence against evicted community
3 September 2009

The inhabitants of San Antonio Ebulá, outside the state capital of Campeche, were forcibly evicted and some were beaten on 13 August by private security guards ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/046/2009