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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Mexico: Lawyers Defending Dec. 1 Accused Charge Human Rights Investigation Didn't Touch Higher Ups

Protestors on Dec. 1, in Mexico City, Inauguration Day for President Enrique Peña Nieto
Photo: Milenio
Milenio Eugenia Jiménez

The recommendation of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District regarding the events of December 1 of last year is "incomplete" regarding the violent events that occurred that day, lawyers and former prisoners claim.

At a press conference the lawyer for the League of December 1, Jorge Miranda, charged that the recommendation of the CDHDF, released last week, is incomplete because it does not touch the high command of the Secretariat of Public Security, the Attorney General of the capital and Federal District's government that he considers responsible for the operation that repressed the social protest and in which arbitrary arrests were made.

He also said he does not see the political will from the current head of government, Miguel Angel Mancera, to comply with the recommendation and withdraw the complaint remaining against 14 persons still under judicial proceedings, nor to repair damage to the victims.

On what is the International Day of the Political Prisoner, attorney Jesús Robles Maloof announced that he will go before the City Court with the recommendation of the CDHDF as a test to prevent future human rights violations of people who are detained and not delivered in due time to judges. Spanish original