Human Rights Defenders Network Action: Misuse of the judicial system to persecute HRDs in Colombia and Mexico

In this document, Amnesty International expresses its concern that irregularities in due process represent an attempt to misuse the judicial system in order to discredit and therefore silence the work of Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, Inter-ecclesiastical Justice and Peace Commission. The document also cites the case of two Mexican prisoners of conscience to highlight the misuse of the judicial system in Mexico to silence or deter dissent or opposition through the use of fabricated or unfounded criminal charges.

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