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The civil-society organizations Luna del Sur, Tequio Jurídico, and the Gobixha Committee for Comprehensive Defense of Human Rights (Código DH), presented a report regarding the use of public force and investigation of responsibility in the case of the repression that took place during the arrest of youth on 22 July in Oaxaca de Juárez. The organizations conclude with a series of recommendations for Luis Ugartechea Begué, mayor of Oaxaca, and by challenging the state-government of Oaxaca with regard to its public policy of security and the Defense Organization for Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca (DDHPO) regarding the “poor role” it took on that day, given the grave and different human-rights violations, as attested to in the document. The report also reveals that “the detained were beaten, threatened with death, and tortured in physical and psychological terms, thus amounting to different violations of their human rights.”
It should be remembered that five youth who claim to have been tortured on 22 July after participating in a march organized by #IAm132 have presented a complaint to the DDHPO in which they accuse the mayor of the city and his security cabinet as being responsible for the violation of their basic rights.
For more information (in Spanish):
Informe de Tequio Jurídico, Código DH y Luna del Sur
Denuncian violaciones a sus Derechos Humanos jóvenes de YoSoy132(Código DH, 1 de agosto de 2012)
Presentan informe sobre la criminalización de la protesta de #YoSoy132 Oaxaca(Educa, 11 de septiembre de 2012)ç
Ugartechea viola pactos internacionales de DH y criminaliza la protesta social: OSC (Página 3, 11 de septiembre de 2012)
Juventud y criminalización. Se presenta Informe sobre violaciones a DH vs #YoSoy132 (Código DH, 11 de septiembre de 2012)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Oaxaca: Protests against “imposition,” detention, and torture (25 July 2012)
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