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.
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Kidnapped by the state: Mexico’s political prisoners in the Covid-19 pandemic
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PBI-Canada and PBI-Mexico meet with Comite Cerezo
29 de junio de 2019, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoPeace 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 (…) -
Highest number of human rights activists on record killed in 2018
8 January 2019, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoIn 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.
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Open Letter to the European Union on the Criminalization of human rights defender Alejandro Cerezo
31 October 2018, by Comité Cerezo México30 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 (…) -
#ADD your signature: Open Letter to elect President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
30 July 2018, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoWe add our signature to this appeal to President Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to take account of of the Victims of human rights violations.
We consider that there are three indispensable aspects to human rights that the new government must take into account in order to initiate a real and effective process in Mexico that guarantees justice, truth, memory, and integral reparation for victims of human rights violation.
Our demands are:
1. A Federal Amnesty Law 2. Truth Commissions (…) -
Workers, FIGHT, RESISTANCE AND ORGANIZATION
2 de mayo de 2018, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoBy [Angélica Jocelyn Soto Espinosa->http://luchadoras.mx/author/jocelyn-soto
A few years ago, Guadalupe sweeping the floors of the halls of a high school in Mexico City; Ema was attending a patient in a public hospital in Chiapas; Olivia was preparing to leave in Sinaloa clean seafood; Brenda and decorating products in a maquila of Coahuila. None thought it would become defenders of the rights of the workers.
In Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement that allowed the entry of (…) -
The Drug War Unmasked: Mexico’s Love Triangle
17 de septiembre de 2017, por Comité Cerezo Méxicodrug war, Free Trade Agreement, human rights violations, immigration policy, indigenous rights, Mexico, Militarization, War on Drugs
by Laura Krasovitzky “The war on drugs has in fact been a strategy to disguise social control and political repression, which serves to prevent and dislocate social unrest produced by displacement.”
The quote above is one of many infuriating, yet unsurprising, statements included in the 6th Report on Human Rights Violations. Defending Human Rights in (…) -
Press release: 6th Report on Human Rights Violations. Defending Human Rights in Mexico: Extrajudicial executions as the State’s response. (June 2016 to May 2017)
2 September 2017, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoMexico City, August 29, 2017
Thanks to the coordinated work of documentation by Urgent Action for Defenders of Human Rights (Acción Urgente para Defensores de los Derechos Humanos, or ACUDDEH AC for its initials in Spanish), the Comite Cerezo Mexico and the National Campaign Against Enforced Disappearance, we present in this report the figures that give an account of the aggressions, arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial executions, and enforced disappearances that have been committed (…) -
Environmental defenders: who are they and how do we decide if they have died in defence of their environment?
13 July 2017, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoGlobal Witness uses an extensive network of local contacts and other techniques to gather evidence every time a defender is reported as killed. Because so few killings happen in populous places, very few make the official list
• Read more from the environmental defenders project here. You can see the names of those who have died so far this year here
Who are land and environmental defenders?
Land and environmental defenders are people who take peaceful action, either voluntarily or (…) -
Statement in response to the extrajudicial execution of Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna in Puebla, human rights defender and member of the Popular Union of Street Vendors (UPVA) “28 of October”
29 June 2017, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoStatement in response to the extrajudicial execution of Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna in Puebla, human rights defender and member of the Popular Union of Street Vendors (UPVA) “28 of October”
Mexico City, June 29, 2017
We learned that Meztli Omixochitl Sarabia Reyna was executed extrajudicially today, June 29, 2017, with two shots—one to the abdomen and one to the head—at approximately 10:00 in the morning while she was at thr Union of Street Vendors “28 of October” (UPVA 28 octubre as (…)