In an Urgent Action published on 27 January 2015, Amnesty International calls on State authorities to protect the security of Silvia Pérez Yescas, a human-rights defender for the indigenous people of the community of Matías Romero, Oaxaca, given that she has received new threats, despite having security protocols in place.
The UA details that on 13 January, Silvia Pérez discovered that several members of her organization, Indigenous Women for Conservation, Investigation, and Management of Natural Resources (CIARENA), had been threatened. A group of people who said they represented a cacique from the zone told them that they should “[abandon] the stupidities because you can even be thrown in jail for being accomplices of Silvia, and anyway she will be fucked over for getting involved in this problem of land distribution.” Furthermore, they added that “there are people waiting for when she will show her face.”
For more information from SIPAZ (in Spanish):
Acción Urgente en línea México: Defensores de indígenas reciben nuevas amenazas (AI, 27 de enero de 2015)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Oaxaca: Bounty placed on head of female rights-defender for 100,000 pesos (2 September 2014)
Oaxaca: Armed men threaten human-rights defender (29 January 2013)
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