This report is based on the report Mexico: Laws without justice – Human rights violations and impunity in the public security and criminal justice system (AI Index: AMR 41/002/2007). It is based on interviews carried out by Amnesty International representatives between 2004 and 2006 with representatives of federal and various state governments, prosecutors, defence lawyers, members of the judiciary, non-governmental human rights organizations and victims of human rights abuses and their families.
