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URGENT ACTION: Death threats against members of the human rights organization, Comité Cerezo México.
1 July 2007, by Comité Cerezo México -
State Terrorism: “Columbianization”; the criminalization of the social struggle as repressive strategy
19 June 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe criminalization of the social struggle is a State strategy that not only implies the modification and use of the law to arrest, convict, and impose long sentences on social activists, as in the case of Ignacio del Valle and the comrades sentenced to 67 years in prison; it goes much further than that. And that is what we, in the human rights and social organizations have not yet fully taken into account.
Criminalization involves “fingering” us, pointing us out, putting us on the same (…) -
Letter from the parents of the Cerezo brothers, April 20 2007
29 April 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoI was finally able to read the letters you’ve written—Hector, your courageous denunciation and, Toño, your letters. As ever, I’ve had to keep my chin up and recall that the social struggle for justice leads all of us who are in it, in the best of cases, to face the dangers of prison and all that that implies, and, in the worst of cases, to face forced disappearance or death, as your dad has always said.
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Letter to Mom and Dad. March 2007
14 April 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoAnd today? Today our memories urge us to struggle, to find in them the strength we need in order to face a present full of adversity; that’s why there’s nothing else that even comes close to them.
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Degrading, inhuman conditions at the Altiplano EXTERMINATION camp
12 February 2007, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoOf course, when the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) representatives come, like they did yesterday, they only ask us to take off our shoes and socks. The CNDH acts like they don’t know what goes on and says that there are no human rights violations here. The treatment is still the same and, needless to say, this denunciation will cost me the usual punishment imposed by the prison. I’ll denounce that later.
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Letter to the World from CEFERESO # 1
13 December 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoHéctor and I don’t live in a Nazi concentration camp. Although things happen here that closely resemble one, this reality is a long way from that. The adversity of our own circumstances, however, has led us to take responsibility for struggling for our freedom.
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Harassment at CEFERESO #1: Special watch and mail restrictions
27 October 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoAccording to ex-prisoners of this CEFERESO, this kind of vigilance is only imposed on prisoners who are in danger of “committing suicide.” Accordingly, there is cause for concern and fear for the physical integrity of Héctor and Antonio Cerezo Contreras. We hold the following people responsible for their physical integrity: the Director of CEFERESO # 1, the Director of the Decentralized Body of Federal Prisons, the federal Minister of Public Safety, and the President of the Republic, Vicente Fox Quesada
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Digna Ochoa, an Open Wound
23 October 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThere are wounds that don’t heal with time, and one of them is the assassination of Digna Ochoa y Plácido, the defense attorney of my sons Antonio, Héctor, and Alejandro Cerezo Contreras.
On the fifth anniversary of her death, I send my sincere condolences to her family, friends, and the community of solidary social activists and ask all of you to see that she is not forgotten and to help to make her case known as an example for future generations.
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Digna Ochoa y Plácido, 5 years of injustice, 5 years of impunity
21 October 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoText read at press conference of the Decade against Impunity Solidarity Network, 5 years after the assassination of the attorney Digna Ochoa y Plácido.
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Letter to Dad and Mom, August 2006
17 October 2006, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoI’d be lying if I told you that I’m happy that I’ve been a prisoner for five years, but I’m not really sad either, maybe a little nostalgic because these years of prison life haven’t gone by quickly and, unfortunately, we still have another stretch to do before we’ll go free. I’ve always been aware that our prison conditions could be worse, but as long as they’re not, we have to do our best not to be totally inactive.