During the night of 23 July, Mariano Méndez, his son Luciano Méndez (both Zapatistas) and Juan López were released, being residents of the Puebla Colony (neighborhood) in the Chenalhó municipality who had been arrested on 20 July. The Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (CDHFBC) released a bulletin denouncing that in the case “the resort to habeas corpus was delayed unjustifiably.” The CDHFBC reported that “they were incarcerated for approximately 67 hours in unhealthy conditions, without receiving food, and furthermore in the judicial investigation there was seen a baseless delay on the part of the Public Ministry in its consideration of the evidence in favor of the arrested.”
Beyond this, the CDHFBC registered new data and testimony regarding the events of 20 July, warning that those it had interviewed had expressed fear in light of the “situation of violence that has worsened with the release of those responsible for the Acteal massacre, as has been ordered by the Supreme Court for Justice in the Nation.” The Center demanded “urgent” attention to the violence, “given that it has already provoked violations to the rights to liberty, physical security, and others.”
For more information (in Spanish):
Boletín: Retardo injustificado en la liberación de 3 personas detenidas por autoridades del ejido Puebla (CDHFBC, 24 de julio de 2013)
En Chenalhó, semillas de violencia y odio (La Jornada, 24 de julio de 2013)
Acusan retraso injustificado en la liberación de tres indígenas en Chenalhó (La Jornada, 25 de julio de 2013)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Chiapas: Las Abejas Civil Society, “the government is using two weapons in its strategy, lead bullets and sugar bullets” (25 June 2013)
Chiapas: Denunciation from Las Abejas of Acteal on 22 May 2013 (7 June 2013)
Chiapas: Las Abejas denounce lack of justice in the Acteal case (23 April 2013)
Chiapas: Las Abejas lament release of yet another of those charged for Acteal massacre (27 March 2013)
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