Download the 2010 Amnesty Report on Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
The Mexican authorities are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from killings and life-threatening harassment and attacks, Amnesty International warned in a new report presented in the Ciudad de Mexico, on 21 January 2010.
Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,8th of February 2010
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A Mexican Federal Court today ordered the release of Juan Manuel Martinez due to lack of evidence. He had been detained since 2008 for the murder of US video journalist Brad Will who was shot when filming a confrontation between protesters and local police during the social conflict in Oaxaca in 2006.
INTRODUCTION
The impact of Colombia’s long-running internal armed conflict on Indigenous
Peoples has been profound and destructive. They have been killed, harassed and driven from their lands by all the parties to the conflict. Despite their determined refusal to be drawn into the hostilities, the threats facing Indigenous Peoples are intensifying.
Bogota, 18 January, 2010 - A recent string of newspaper articles in the international and Colombian national media attacking Peace Brigades International (PBI) and the organisations we accompany in Colombia is cause for great concern.
Just weeks ago, Colombian human rights activist Principe Gabriel Gonzalez Arango was making the rounds in Washington -- meeting with senior State Department officials, testifying before Congress -- and being feted in New York for his work on behalf of political prisoners and the steep personal price he has paid for his advocacy. Now he is facing seven years in prison.
It is with revulsion that we learn of a Colombian court’s decision yesterday to release 17 Colombian Army personnel for the 2008 Soacha murder case.