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Mexico: Justice for Sergio Sánchez after 7 years in prison

The decision made today by a federal court to release Sergio Sánchez Arellano, who was arbitrarily detained in 2010 and...

Mexico: Migration authorities unlawfully turning back thousands of Central Americans to possible death

Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without...

I WELCOME: Stand Up for Refugees in Mexico Facing Life-threatening Deportations

Mexico is on the front lines of a massive refugee crisis, a crisis effectively hidden by our mass media’s single-minded...

Mexico: Cloaked by silence of Christmas, Police unleash spate of at least 5 enforced disappearances in Guerrero

While families were celebrating Christmas holidays at home, police in the city of Chilpancingo forcibly disappeared 5 young men, using...

Mexico: Amnesty International chief slams interior security law and calls on Mexican president to veto it

Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Salil Shetty, today directed an open letter to Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, calling on the...

Mexico/Central America: Authorities turning their backs on LGBTI refugees

The lives and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras...

Acute human rights crisis in Mexico must become a priority for Canada, visiting Mexican rights advocates say

Ottawa — Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s state visit to Mexico, nine leading Mexican human rights experts are in...

‘We never thought this could happen to us’: A sinister story of arbitrary detention in Mexico

By Josefina Salomón, Amnesty International in Mexico The phone rang at four in the afternoon, exactly as scheduled. The ringing...

Arbitrary detentions in Mexico: ‘We never thought this could happen to us’

The phone rang at four in the afternoon, exactly as scheduled. The ringing heightened the tension in the small...

Mexico: Arbitrary detentions taint “new” justice system

The toxic combination of a flawed judicial system, untrained police officers and widespread impunity are encouraging arbitrary detentions and leading...

Amnesty’s human rights colleagues in Mexico target of disturbing cyber-surveillance scandal

By Kathy Price, Mexico campaigner at Amnesty International Canada It was a year ago that Amnesty International Canada organized a...

Mexico: human rights defenders and journalists should be protected against illegal surveillance

Responding to a NYT’s article that disclosed the use of software to spy on Mexican journalists and human rights defenders,...

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