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Published by Brent Patterson on July 23, 2021
PBI-Mexico and PBI-Canada with Antonio Cerezo, September 2019.
On July 21, the Comité Cerezo México posted on their website: “At the time, four years ago, in 2017, we reported that we were sure that we had been targets of telephone spying, of the NSO Pegasus program. Almost nobody believed us, we went out in the media barely and they did not even accept our mobile devices to do the expert report, as if only some had the right to be spied on and (...)

Summary
This report results from the documentation of Extrajudicial Executions (EXE) committed against Human Right Defenders (HRD) in Mexico, that Comité Cerezo México has done with no interruption since 2008. This report covers the beginning of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (December 1st, 2018) to the present date.
Some documented cases where already published in the most recent report (August 2020) by Acción Urgente Para Defensores de Derechos Humanos AC, Comité Cerezo (...)

Published by Brent Patterson on November 25, 2020
n January 2019, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project commented: “The organizations that we accompany continue to be concerned about [Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s] position on the rights of indigenous populations, given that his public discourse seems to respect their autonomy, but he continues to propose initiatives of megaprojects such as the Mayan Train or new mining investments.”
The Mayan Train (Tren Maya) (...)

On the 24th of August, the organizations Acción Urgente para Defensores de Derechos Humanos A.C. (Urgent Action for Human rights Defenders – also known as ACCUDEH for its acronym in Spanish) , the Comité Cerezo México (Cerezo Committee Mexico) and the Campaña Nacional contra la Desaparición Forzada (National Campaign against Forced Disappearance) presented their 9th report called «Defending Human Rights in Mexico: The Impunity that does not end».
The report reflects the human rights violation (...)

On August 24th, the Mexico Cerezo Committee presented its 9th Report, “Defend Human Rights in Mexico, Impunity That Does Not End”, that reflects the human rights violations (HRV) that were committed by the Mexican State against human rights defenders during the period from June 1st, 2019 to May 31st, 2020.
In the presentation, through a live broadcast, representatives of the organizations that prepared the report participated (Mexico Cerezo Committee, Urgent Action for Human Rights Defenders (...)

Extract of article:
Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
Each day, human rights defenders speak out for the rights of others. And each day they risk their livelihoods, their liberty and in many cases their lives. As attacks, abductions, and assassinations increase in Latin America, we shine a light on the extraordinary human rights defenders taking a stand against injustice: community leaders fighting to protect collective land rights against mining companies; women struggling for gender (...)

Eoin Wilson, an advocacy group calling for, among other things, the liberation of all political inmates and prisoners of conscience.
Higher profile prisoners were released at the start of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency in late 2018.
A statement to The Ferret from the office of the federal government’s undersecretary of human rights said the release of 47 political prisoners had been achieved by López Obrador’s government, including water, land and environmental activists.
The (...)

Peace Brigades International-Canada Board member Paul Bocking writes, “Meeting with Antonio of Comite Cerezo, a human and labour rights group in Mexico City accompanied by Peace Brigades International – Mexico Project.”
The Alliance for Global Justice has explained, “Antonio and other family members and associates were part of the student movements of the 90s and early 2000’s before several of them were framed, arrested, and incarcerated by the Mexican government. Antonio spent more than seven (...)

In total 321 people in 27 countries were targeted and killed for their work.
AN IRISH-BASED organisation has said human rights activists around the world continue to face threats from state, non-state and corporate actors and hundreds lost their lives because of their work last year.
In 2018, 321 human rights defenders in 27 countries were targeted and killed for their work, according to the Front Line Defenders annual report. This is the highest number ever on record.
More than (...)

30 Oct, 2018 | EU-LAT, Geographic Areas, Human Rights and Justice Defenders, Mexico, News
EU LAT Network has received reliable information about the deportationi of human rights defender Alejandro Cerezo Contreras, who is a beneficiary of protective measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The incident occurred on October 1, 2018, when the human rights defender deplaned from flight CM-137 in Panama City with the aim of continuing his journey to the city of Asunción, in (...)