Five tseltal defenders from San Juan Cancuc are sentenced to 25 years without any evidence of their crime, representative of the rash of what Frayba refers to as the “factory of guilty parties” in Chiapas.
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Frayba Human Rights centers calls for precautionary measures for José Díaz, before the IAHCR. Unjustly detained for over a year and a half, the Zapatista support base suffers a risk to his health and life due to contagion and inhumane condition in detention.
We demand the immediate and unconditional release of José Díaz!
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As yet another failure for constitutional reform on indigenous right passes to the Congress, the trifecta of criminalization, militarization and organized crime lays seige to indigenous peoples across the Mexican countryside.
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One more victim in the “factory of culprits” Frayba points out the pattern of criminalization of Zapatista support bases and demands the release of José Díaz.
The Judiciary of the State of Chiapas sentenced to 25 years in prison the Tseltal defenders Manuel Sántiz Cruz, Juan Velasco Aguilar, Agustín Pérez Velasco, Martín Pérez Domínguez and Agustín Pérez Domínguez, who were arbitrarily detained for defending their territory in 2022.The sentence was issued by the Chiapas judge despite the fact that last May 3 three of the five Tseltales declared that, after their arbitrary detention at the hands of the San Juan Cancuc municipal police, the National Guard and the army on May 29, 2022, they were handed over to the Indigenous Justice Prosecutor’s Office, “who first fabricated the crime of drug possession and then involved them in the homicide for which they were sentenced,” explained the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba).
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