On 10 June the Fray Matías de Cordova, AC Center for Human Rights (headquarters in the border-town of Tapachula) published a press-release denouncing that the National Institute on Migration (INM) has been impeding the work of organizations that defend the human rights of migrant peoples. The Center indicated that following 11 days of having been held in the Migratory Station of Acayucan, Veracruz, the whereabouts of Wilmar García Pérez, Daniel Espinoza Guzmán, Idalberto Pérez Bermúdez, Diego Juvera Miranda, and Junior Michel Castillo Reyes–all Cubans–and the Dominican Santiago Apóstol Díaz Dauhajr are unknown. The Fray Matías de Córdova Center details that “It is presumed that they have been deported, but regardless no informationis known regarding their whereabouts after the 5 Cubans were transferred by the [INM] last night (8 June) toward an unknown destinatio. The Dominican suffered the same fate yesterday. No prior notice [was given], as stipulated by Article 39 of the Federal Law on Administrative Proceedings. These measures on the part of INM not only violate recommendations 26 and 42 of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Relatives (Committee of 90), released during the second periodical exam of the Mexican State on migration, but it also makes difficult the work that [this center] had been carrying out in the accompaniment and denunciation of the discretional behavior of the INM regarding due process and access to information.”
For this reason it concluded its bulletin affirming that “from this Center for Human Rights we reiterate the denunciation of the right to due process on the part of the INM, the arbitrary transferring of migrant peoples, and the impediments to the work of human-rights workers, thus violating international law having to do with the respect for the human rights of migrants.
Following the release of 7 of 13 the migrants from the State Center for the Social Reinsertion of the Sentenced No. 3 (CERESO No. 3) in Tapachula, Chiapas, on 28 May, where they had engaged in a hunger strike for 24 days, they were transferred in adverse conditions to the Migratory Station of Acayucan, Veracruz, with the argument that the Migratory Station Century XXI, the largest in Latin America, lacked the necessary conditions.
For more information (in Spanish):
INM OBSTACULIZA LABOR DE ORGANIZACIONES DEFENSORAS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LAS PERSONAS MIGRANTES, (Observatorio ciudadano, 10 June 2011)
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