7 years after the unjust imprisonment of the brothers, Héctor and Antonio Cerezo Contreras, which have been 7 years of continuous harassment against the Comité Cerezo México, we demand that the Mexican State:
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Letter to Calderon, after 7 years of unjust imprisonment
25 August 2008, by Comité Cerezo México -
Evento realizado en Vancouver, Canadá por los 7 años de injusta prisión
22 de agosto de 2008, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoPrisoners Today! Free Always!
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Letter from Hector and Antonio Cerezo Contreras
6 de julio de 2008, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoTo the social organizations, human rights defense groups, student collectives, and all people in solidarity.
We send you our fraternal, combative greetings and a solidarity hug from our trench in the struggle: the Atlacholoaya prison in the state of Morelos. As you all know, six years and nine months have gone by since we were arrested without a warrant, tortured, and, four days later, taken to the maximum security federal prison then known as “La Palma,” itself a living monument to the (…) -
Letter to the world
26 February 2008, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoAfter six years and six months of prison, the end of our present sentence appears to be closer at hand every day.
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Letter to the Cerezo family from their mother
14 de enero de 2008, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoTo all the members of the Comité Cerezo and all the generous people who stand by my children and help them, extending their solidarity in spite of the risks implied in the struggle for justice and freedom for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, I send you a big hug, my best wishes for this year, and my infinite gratitude.
Here goes a hug in solidarity with Carmen Aristegui, Lydia Cacho, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Mariana Villarreal, Gloria Muñoz, Leticia Tecla and her daughter, Judith Galarza, Doña Trini and América del Valle, Mariana Selvas, Magdalena García Durán, Margarita Irasema Villanueva Gallegos, Elvira Arellano, Yanahuit and Cristina Paredes Lachino, Nadine Reyes, Berta Maldonado, Irene Villavicencio, Nancy Mota, Melanie Salgado, and many more women whose names I can’t recall just now, who have given us a lesson in dignity and courage through their struggle for truth and against injustice. -
Greetings from the Comité Cerezo México for this new year, 2008
8 de enero de 2008, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoWe believe that this year will be harsher than the last; all indications are that repression will increase. We call upon all organizations to search for ways and to make preparations to lessen the impact of the repression or hinder it. We urge everyone to denounce and document it so as not to allow a permanent state of impunity to exist.
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REFLECTIONS ON AMNESTY
19 November 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoAmnesty (from the Greek work amnesia, “oblivion” or “forgetting”) is a cause for the extinction of criminal responsibility. It is a legal act, normally passed by the legislative branch, by which a plurality of individuals who had been declared guilty of a crime are considered innocent due to the abolition of the criminal offense.
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SIX YEARS OF REPRESSION, SIX YEARS OF RESISTANCE.
28 September 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoWe want to thank each and every organization and person in Mexico and other countries that have shown their solidarity with us, and also with Alejandro and Pablo Alvarado when they were prisoners and with the members of the committees fighting for our freedom.
To these organizations and individuals we want to say that we will resist as long as we are in prison. There’s nothing in us that makes us want to stop. To resist is to be alive, to deal with adversity and be patient. -
Letter from Hector Cerezo after 6 years in prison
30 August 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoOur thanks go out to all of you who have made our struggle for freedom your own. Rest assured that we will never give up, that we will never surrender, that we will never go back on our principles and ideals. Now, after six years of being locked up, we can say that our convictions are as firm as ever and that our will to keep on struggling for the freedom of our people is unbreakable.
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¿ARE WE MERE HOSTAGES OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT?
3 July 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoWe would like for all of you to help us respond to the following question: What should we do? Renounce our daily work for the defense of human rights and turn a blind eye to human rights violations? Stop standing by families and organizations who seek our help, knowing that their human rights are also being violated, and abandon them to their own fate although we know they can’t expect much? Stop showing our solidarity ( the only nourishment that keeps us going) with difficult cases so the State won’t see us as accomplices of terrorism or organized crime? Stop being ourselves and accept the role of pawns on the chessboard in the war between the Mexican government and the insurgent groups? Accept that our crime is one of birth, that it’s genetic, and that there’s nothing we can do except play the sad role allotted to us by the State? Or keep on working like we’ve done up until now under the principle of mutual solidarity to make this a more human world even though “the full weight of the law” may fall on our heads or until we find another option that we can’t yet make out clearly? We ask your help in finding a path and continuing with our work in defense of human rights.