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Moreover, from June 2014 to the end of May 2015, the following incidents have been recorded: 459 arbitrary arrests; 330 cases of attacks, threats, harassment; 224 people denied freedom for political reasons; 459 documented cases of torture; 47 extrajudicial executions (ACUDDEH, Comité Cerezo México and Campaña Nacional Contra la Desaparición Forzada, 2015).
Mexican environmental grassroots protest: what does it mean to resist and defend the territory in a repressive context?
ALICE POMA and (...)

By Sebastiana Pérez Hernández
Sebastiana has a sad look on her eyes.
For more than five months, she has been demanding the Mexican authorities find her husband Fidencio Gómez Sántiz. She wants him back, and alive. So far, her demands have been met with silence.
Sebastiana Pérez Hernández is a 45-year-old woman and is the mother of two children. She speaks the indigenous language tzeltal and lives in the village of Las Perlas, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas. She is a member of the (...)

The Cerezo Committee is the leading Mexican organisation in the documentation of politically motivated or other forced disappearances.
By Daniela Pastrana
This article is part of IPS coverage of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, celebrated Aug. 30
MEXICO CITY, Aug 26 2016 (IPS) - “Go and tell my dad that they’re holding me here,” Maximiliano Gordillo Martínez told his travelling companion on May 7 at the migration station in Chablé, in the southern Mexican (...)

On another day, we met with Comite Cerezo at UNAM. The committee works with victims (including relatives) of arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killing and forced disappearance
By Ed Kinane and Ann Tiffany, Speakout | Op-Ed
This past November, during its 25th annual convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia, Roy Bourgeois of School of the Americas Watch made a momentous announcement. In 2016, this event will instead be held in early October in Nogales, Arizona — divided from Nogales, Mexico, (...)

Urgent Action: Enforced disappearance of Fidencio Gómez Sántiz (indigenous member of Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) in Ocosingo, Chiapas
AU-02-Chiapas / FNLS-23 / March / 2016
Mexico City, March 23, 2016
Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto President of Mexico Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong Interior Secretary Manuel Velazco Coello Governor of Chiapas Juan Carlos Gómez Aranda Interior Secretary of Chiapas Raciel López Salazar Attorney General of Chiapas Dr. Raúl Plascencia Villanueva President (...)

On 16 November 2015, the National Front for Socialism initiated a second round of activities in Mexico City to denounce the situation faced by indigenous human rights defenders in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
During a campaign launched the previous week, human rights defenders Matías Flores, Jesús Hernández Reyes and Rubicél Hernández García were shot.
The National Front for Socialism (Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) is a grassroots movement working to denounce and (...)

AU-06-DF/-FNLS—07/november/2015
URGENT ACTION: Attempted extrajudicial killing in Mexico City of Matias Flores, indigenous Nahuatl of Human Rights Committee of the Huasteca and Eastern Sierra (CODHHSO en espanol); Jesus Hernandez Reyes and Rubicel Hernandez Garcia, indigenous Nahuatl, members of the National Socialist Front (FNLS en espanol) for denouncing the extrajudicial killing in Chiapas of Hector Santiz Lopez.
November 07th 2015
Comité Cerezo México, located at Volcán Kirishima L. 6 (...)

Héctor Cerezo of the Cerezo Committee said the disappearance of the teachers college students from Ayotzinapa occurred in the context of this strategy of social control.
By Daniela Pastrana
IGUALA, Mexico, Sep 24 2015 (IPS) - The soup kitchen of the San Gerardo parish in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero has become a memorial to horror. Long rows of photos have been hung on the walls of the large hall – the faces of dozens of people who were “disappeared”, abducted, extracted from (...)

September 8, 2015
#Join (Hashtag in Spanish: #Súmate) the National and International Signature Campaign to support the proposed General Law to Prevent, Investigate, Punish, and Redress the Enforced Disappearance of Persons and the Disappearance of Persons Committed by Private Citizens. This legislation has been drafted by the National Campaign Against Enforced Disappearance in Mexico, an organization comprised of family members of victims of enforced disappearances, human rights (...)

Hector Cerezo told Reforma that the campaign intended to deliver its own proposal to the Mexican Senate on Thursday.
Mexico Sees Spike in Disappearances of Human Rights Defenders Under President Peña Nieto there have been 81 cases of forced disappearances of human rights defenders, versus 53 under the previous government.
Human rights organizations are drawing attention to the dramatic increase in forced disappearances of human rights defenders in Mexico during the administration of (...)