El Colectivo Oaxaqueño en Defensa de los Territorios tiene conocimiento de nuevas amenazas de muerte en contra de integrantes de la Coordinadora de Pueblos Unidos del Valle de Ocotlán, sucedidos ayer el 17 de mayo del 2013.  

    Inminente emisión del informe de fondo de la CIDH.  Presentan campaña contra la tortura sexual: Somos libertad en movimiento.  

  ·         The PRD legislative initiative does not eliminate arraigo, it only changes its name and shortens its duration ·         The initiative presented by PRI and PAN only shortens its duration, as well The undersigning organizations warn that the initiative presented by the Head of Government of the Federal District to the local Legislative Assembly and to the Chamber of Deputies does not eliminate arraigo, it only changes its name and some of its characteristics; it does not address the underlying problems arising from this form of arbitrary detention, whose logic is to detain first and to investigate afterwards, and distorts the due process that should always prevail in a democratic State of Law. Likewise, by focusing the discussion on the duration of the measure and by establishing a time limit of 35 days, the legislative initiative presented by other parties, which is currently being analyzed by the Constitution Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, ignores the underlying discussion on the structural violations that are implicit in arraigo detentions. Mexico has attracted the attention of several international bodies for maintaining a measure that violates human rights. Changing its name or shortening its duration does not represent a fundamental change that is capable of putting an end to these violations, which have even been recognized by the initiatives themselves. Maintaining arraigo by disguising it as a new form of detention would represent a serious setback to public safety, as it would undermine efforts to professionalize and modernize the justice system, which continues to lack real capacity to respond to illegal acts and organized crime.  On April 17 the Head of Government of the Federal District, Miguel Ángel Mancera, presented a legislative initiative to eliminate arraigo. However, it only replaces this measure with another one called “judicial detention” (“detención con control judicial”), which allows the detention of a person for a 5-day term that can be extended for 5 more days. This new form of detention, which highlights “judicial control”, has been presented as a fundamental change. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the current arraigo detention already requires judicial control. The only difference in relation to arraigo is that the person would be formally under the ‘custody’ of the judge, which does not mean that the judge would be physically supervising the detention. It does not even require detention to be carried out in certain places. On the contrary, the judge may determine the “time and place” of detention, which has allowed authorities to hold people under irregular and informal detention conditions. Arraigo detentions, or “judicial detentions” for that matter, are requested by the public prosecutor within the criminal investigations. In other words, these measures grant public prosecutors a way to avoid their work and to violate the established constitutional limits allowing for additional time periods to produce evidence against the detainee. For that reason, arraigo is counterproductive to fight organized crime; it implies detaining a person in order to investigate (and not vice versa), without having enough evidence to justify the detention, which in the end creates an incentive for prosecutors to use it as an alternative to investigations. It is important to recall that the Federal Constitution and the Criminal Procedure Codes already establish measures and tools to carry out adequate investigations. To date in flagrante detentions can be carried out; detentions can be ordered in urgent cases; an arrest warrant can be requested whenever there is enough evidence to support a presumption that a person has committed a crime. In this sense, it is clear that if such measures are not enough to detain a person it is due to the fact that there is not enough evidence to support an accusation. What our justice system needs is the capacity and the will to carry out real investigations based on evidence and testimonies to find the truth. This is the only way to decrease existing almost universal impunity in the country. If the State continues to allow the logic of “detaining in order to investigate”, whether it is under arraigo or other measure such as “judicial detention”, the consequence will be to practically eliminate the requirements that prosecutors and police must meet to carry out detentions and to create incentives to torture and coerce detainees, as has been documented in several cases. Additionally, it is unnecessary to use arraigo in light of other less intrusive measures that give prosecutors adequate tools to investigate and that have given better results at the local level. The Mexican State should advance the modernization and professionalization of prosecutors and police with the goal of promoting prompt investigations. Modifying or substituting arraigo with another measure to hide and promote arbitrary acts and deficiencies by these institutions is unacceptable. The only solution to the problem is to eliminate arraigo and not to substitute it with another measure that has equal effects. We strongly call congresspeople to act in accordance with their commitment to security and to the rights of the Mexican population by eliminating arraigo de jure and de facto.     Organización Mundial contra la Tortura (OMCT); Fundación para el Debido Proceso (DPLF); Action des chrétiens pour l'abolition de la torture (ACAT-France); Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias – México; Instituto Mexicano de Derechos Humanos y Democracia, A.C.; Casa del Migrante de Saltillo - Frontera con Justicia, A.C.; Casa de los Derechos de Periodistas, A. C.; Propuesta Cívica, A. C.; Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña "Tlachinollan"; Centro Diocesano para los Derechos Humanos Fray Juan de Larios, A.C.; Fundar – Centro de Análisis e Investigación; Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos; Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, A.C.; Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos” (conformada por 73 organizaciones en 21 estados de la República): Agenda LGBT (Estado de México), Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos, A.C. (Distrito Federal); Asociación Jalisciense de Apoyo a los Grupos Indígenas, A.C. (Guadalajara, Jal.); Asociación para la Defensa de los Derechos Ciudadanos "Miguel Hidalgo", A.C. (Jacala, Hgo.); Bowerasa, A.C. “Haciendo Camino”. (Chihuahua, Chih.); Casa del Migrante Saltillo (Coahuila), Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir, A.C. (Distrito Federal); Centro “Fray Julián Garcés” Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local, A. C. (Tlaxcala, Tlax.); Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador, A.C. (Puebla, Pue.); Centro de Derechos Humanos "Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas", A. C. (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis) ; Centro de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa A.C; Centro de Derechos Humanos "Fray Francisco de Vitoria O.P.", A. C. (Distrito Federal); Centro de Derechos Humanos "Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez", A. C. (Distrito Federal); Centro de Derechos Humanos “Don Sergio” (Jiutepec, Mor.); Centro de Derechos Humanos “Fray Matías de Córdova”. A.C. (Tapachula, Chis); Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña, Tlachinollan, A. C. (Tlapa, Gro.); Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (Chihuahua), Centro de Derechos Humanos, “Juan Gerardi”, A. C. (Torreón, Coah.); Centro de Derechos Humanos Paso del Norte (Cd. Juárez); Centro de Derechos Humanos Victoria Diez, A.C. (León, Gto.); Centro de Derechos Indígenas “Flor y Canto”, A. C. (Oaxaca, Oax.); Centro de Derechos Humanos Toaltepeyolo (Tlilapan, Veracruz); Centro de Derechos Indígenas A. C. (Bachajón, Chis.); Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (DF); Centro de Justicia para la Paz y el Desarrollo, A. C. (CEPAD) (Guadalajara, Jal.); Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral (CEREAL-DF) (Distrito Federal); Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral (CEREAL-Guadalajara) (Guadalajara, Jal.); Centro Diocesano para los Derechos Humanos “Fray Juan de Larios”, A.C. (Saltillo, Coah.); Centro Juvenil Generando Dignidad (Comalcalco, Tabasco); Centro Hermanas Mirabal de Derechos Humanos (León, Gto.), Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Distrito Federal), Centro Mujeres (La Paz, BCS.), Centro Regional de Defensa de DDHH José María Morelos y Pavón, A. C. (Chilapa, Gro.); Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos “Bartolomé Carrasco”, A. C. (Oaxaca, Oax.); Ciencia Social Alternativa, A.C. - KOOKAY (Mérida, Yuc.); Ciudadanía Lagunera por los Derechos Humanos, A. C. (CILADHAC) (Torreón, Coah.); Colectivo Educación para la Paz y los Derechos Humanos, A.C. (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis.); Colectivo contra la Tortura y la Impunidad (Distrito Federal); Comité Cerezo (Distrito Federal); Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán, A.C. (Tehuacan, Pue.); Comisión de Solidaridad y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, A. C. (Chihuahua, Chih.); Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos de Morelos, A. C. (CIDHMOR) (Cuernavaca, Mor.); Comisión Intercongregacional "Justicia, Paz y Vida" (Distrito Federal); Comisión Parroquial de Derechos Humanos “Martín de Tours”, A.C. (Texmelucan, Pue.); Comisión Regional de Derechos Humanos "Mahatma Gandhi", A. C. (Tuxtepec, Oax.); Comité de Defensa Integral de Derechos Humanos Gobixha A.C.(Codigodh A.C); Comité de Defensa de las Libertades Indígenas (Palenque, Chis.); Comité de Derechos Humanos Ajusco (Distrito Federal); Comité de Derechos Humanos "Fr. Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada", A. C. (Ocosingo, Chis.); Comité de Derechos Humanos "Sembrador de la Esperanza". A. C. (Acapulco, Gro.); Comité de Derechos Humanos “Sierra Norte de Veracruz”, AC. 4 (Huayacocotla, Ver.); Comité de Derechos Humanos de Colima, No gubernamental, A. C. (Colima, Col.); Comité de Derechos Humanos de Comalcalco, A. C. (Comalcalco, Tab); Comité de Derechos Humanos de Tabasco, A. C. (Villahermosa, Tab); Comité de Derechos Humanos y Orientación Miguel Hidalgo, A. C. (Dolores Hidalgo, Gto.); Comité Sergio Méndez Arceo Pro Derechos Humanos de Tulancingo, Hgo AC (Tulancingo, Hgo.); El Caracol A.C (Distrito Federal); Frente Cívico Sinaloense. Secretaría de Derechos Humanos. (Culiacán, Sin.); Indignación, A. C. Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (Chablekal, comisaría del municipio de Mérida, Yuc.); Iniciativas para la Identidad y la Inclusión A.C. (Distrito Federal); Instituto Guerrerense de Derechos Humanos, A. C. (Chilpancingo, Gro.); Instituto Mexicano de Derechos Humanos y Democracia (Distrito Federal); Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo Comunitario, A. C. (IMDEC), (Guadalajara, Jal.); Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, - Programa Institucional de Derechos Humanos y Paz. (Guadalajara, Jal.); Oficina de Defensoría de los Derechos de la Infancia A.C. (Distrito Federal), Programa de Derechos Humanos. Universidad Iberoamericana- Puebla (Puebla, Pue); Programa Universitario de Derechos Humanos. UIA –León (León, Gto.); Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales Y Culturales (Distrito Federal); Proyecto sobre Organización, Desarrollo, Educación e Investigación (Distrito Federal); Promoción de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (Estado de México); Respuesta Alternativa, A. C. Servicio de Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Comunitario (San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.); Servicio, Paz y Justicia de Tabasco, A.C. (Villahermosa, Tab.); Servicios de Inclusión Integral, A.C. (Pachuca, Hidalgo); Taller Universitario de Derechos Humanos, A. C. (Distrito Federal).

  • OSC hacen evidente la recurrente criminalización de la protesta social • Exigen al Gobierno del Distrito Federal acepte en sus términos la Recomendación 7/2013

Comunicado de prensa de la Red TDT en donde se hace un llamado a poner un alto a las agresiones contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos. Ello ante las recientes agresiones en contra de defensoras y defensores en México, así como ante diversas descalificaciones por parte de medios de comunicación.