The Comité Cerezo (Cerezo Committee) was formed in the wake of the August 13, 2001 arrest, torture, and imprisonment of the Cerezo Contreras brothers-Alejandro, Héctor, and Antonio-and their codefendants Pablo Alvarado Flores and Sergio Galicia Max, who are all being held in Mexico’s maximum security prisons.
Home > Área Internacional > OTROS IDIOMAS > English
English
-
Who we are
3 July 2006, by Comité Cerezo México -
The Human Rights Situation in México
21 June 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe human rights violations strategy applied and enacted by the government of Citizen President Vicente Fox Quesada 2001-2006
-
All This For Selling Flowers ...
13 May 2006, by Comité Cerezo México -
Alejandro Cerezo Contreras [en]
1 December 2005, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe youngest of the five Cerezo Contreras brothers, was illegaly detained with Antonio and Héctor. He was liberated on march, 2005, after living 3 years and ten months in La Palma prison.
-
Antonio Cerezo Contreras [en]
1 December 2005, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoAntonio Cerezo was born in March 23rd, 1977 in México City. He was 24 years old when he was illegaly arrested. At that time, he studied at the faculty degree of Philosophy in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM.
-
Brothers Cerezo Contreras
25 June 2005, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoInfo about four of the political prisoners in Mexico: Torture is still an unpunished crime
index: the case Sergio Garcia and Pablo, the other prisoners Digna Ochoa: The crime how can I help? internet groups of support What happens? On august 13th 2001, at five o’clock in the morning, efectives of the General Procuradury of the Republic (PGR), the Army, Judicial Police and from the National Security, as well as some other unidentified masked guys entered violently at the adress (...) -
Student freed from jail
3 March 2005, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoA Mexican college student is being freed after serving three years in prison on weapons charges, a partial victory for his supporters who say police tortured and framed him and his two brothers.
-
New Questions on Lynching
December 2004, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoDecember 2 Judge Isabel Cristina Porras of Mexico City’s 17th criminal district formally charged 29 people in the lynching deaths of two Federal Preventive Police (PFP) agents on the evening of November 23 and in the attempted murder of a third agent, who was severely beaten. She said that there would be more arrests in the killings, which took place in the village of San Juan Ixtayopan in the Tláhuac delegación (borough) of the Federal District (DF), a rural area about 40 miles south of downtown Mexico City. (EFE 12/2/04; El Diario-La Prensa (NY) 12/4/04 from AFP)
-
Mexican human rights finds support in Montreal
12 November 2002, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThirty people took to the streets on Nov. 7 at 12 p.m. to rally for indigenous rights in Mexico. The protest was organized by Convergence des Luttes Anti-Capitalistes and supported by Students Taking Action in Chiapas, in solidarity with similar actions in Mexico. Protesters aimed to educate the public about Mexican human rights violations and to demand the release of over three hundred political prisoners currently being detained in Mexico.
"Actions like this, even though they may seem (...) -
Inmediatly Freedom for Cerezo Contreras Brothers
2002, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoWe ask to Presidente Vicente Fox, to Secretario de Gobernación Santiago Creel and to Presidente de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, their interventión to get freedom of Cerezo Brothers and Pablo Alvarado, in jail since august 2001 en the High Security Prison La Palma, Almoloya de Juárez, Participed on their detentión the Federal Army in a inconstitucional way and they were tortured.
During the trial, was murder their lawyer, Digna Ochoa y Plácido.