From: Alejandro Valle Baeza (valle@SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 12:56:35 EDT
Press Release #11 PRESS RELEASE OF THE FOLLOW-UP COMMISSION OF THE CCIODH Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Between yesterday and today the CCIODH has handed in the Preliminary Report to the vice-chancellor of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), Ing. Manuel Pérez Rocha; Rodrigo Labardini, of the unit of Human Rights of the Secretary of Foreign Relations; to the German and Spanish embassies; to the Office of the High Commissioner of United Nations in Mexico, Lic. Amérigo Incalcaterra: to the Office of the Europe Union in Mexico, Lic. Peter Versteeg; and to the second visitor of the CNDH, Susana Talía Pedroza. The Lic. Rodrigo Ezpeleta, from the Human Rights unit of the Attorney General´s Office of the Republic, together with the court clerk Eugenia Díaz have also accepted the report. The CCIODH also wants to present the Preliminary Report to the President of the Republic. All the institutions have expressed formally and attentively that they will communicate their observations concerning the report to the Commission. On Wednesday the 28th of June, we were received by the community of San Salvador Atenco. Approximately two hundred people watched the video of the prisoners of the jail and with much emotion they applauded the work of the Commission concerning the events of the 3rd and 4th of May. They expressed to the Follow-up Commission their concern about the continuation of harassment against the community by elements of Public Safety, as well as the prisoners from the 14th of June and the situation of fear and anxiety in which there are various families of the community. Yesterday we also received authorization to enter the Santiaguito prison which will take effect on Friday the 30th at 10 in the morning. Today we visited the plantón (a temporary camp in protest in front of the jail) at the Santiaguito prison taking advantage of the Hearings that were going on to converse with the men and women being processed and to distribute the Preliminary Reports. We were received with emotion and impatience to read the conclusions and recommendations of the CCIODH, whose copies ending up running short in response to the eagerness of the men and women being processed. At 7 p.m. Jesus Rodríguez, Ofelia Medina, María Novaro, and Raquel Gutiérrez participated in an act to present the Preliminary Report in Coyoacán in which we all learned about the situation of the women in the case of Atenco and Texcoco. We passed a video with the voice of the Chilean women Valentina Palma Novoa and read a letter from the women prisoners of Santiaguito. Tomorrow, Friday the 30th of June we will proceed to enter the Santiaguito prison to hand copies of the Preliminary Report to each of the men and women prisoners that gave their testimonies, as well as to inform them of the entities to which the CCIODH has appealed nationally and internationally. In the afternoon we will have a work meeting with the lawyers, as well as a second meeting with the human rights organizations to try to look for a better method of attention for the affected communities and persons. Follow-up Commission of the CCIODH Address: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier #92, 4º piso, col. Centro Cellular phone in México: 044 55 34 67 67 63 - 044 55 32 75 81 22 E-mail: cciodh@pangea.org Web-site: http://cciodh.pangea.org The CCIODH is made up of 28 people from 7 different countries. It was in Mexico from the 29th of May until the 4th of June. It conducted 173 interviews with prisoners, family members, townspeople, social and political organizations, and government entities. They were able to access the Santiaguito prison, where all of the male and female prisoners were interviewed, making afterwards a 15 minute video including their statements. The (13) conclusions and recommendations consider it proven that there was an excess of police force, that the government turned to the public force without using all the possible non violent measures to resolve the conflict, that it did not act within the framework of a Rule of Law and did not respect the international standards of protection of human rights, among those the sexual tortures against most of the women detained. They recommend the immediate dismissal of Wilfrido Robledo Madrid, as well as Alejandro Eduardo Martínez Aduna, and those politically responsible for the police operatives. The release of the prisoners of Santiaguito and La Palma is also recommended under the principal of the presumption of their innocence, given the violations of the right to a due process with procedural guaratees. -- Posgrado Facultad de Economía Av. Universidad 3000 Circuito interior México 04510, DF México Tel. 55-56222148 fax 55-56222158 Página web: http://usuarios.lycos.es/vallebaeza
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