”There is a pattern of criminalization against human rights defenders, who are usually accused of crimes they did not commit, arbitrarily detained, in several cases tortured, and their detention has been prolonged through the informal preventive detention” – Frayba.
Tseltal Defenders from San Juan Cancuc Awaiting Appeal READ MORE »
We know that prisons are just another business of capitalism and that Mexican “justice” is characterized by impunity and the violation of human rights, and that it is only at the service of those who can buy it, but not for those who are poor and indigenous, for those who struggle and build alternatives for life are criminalized and their crimes are fabricated. Such is the case of José Díaz Gómez, support base of the EZLN, who has been unjustly imprisoned for 9 months…
Immediate Release for José Díaz Gómez, EZLN Support Base READ MORE »
Frayba’s statement on the 14th anniversary of the release of the perpetrators of the Acteal Massacre and the complicity of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice in the impunity that reigns in the country and the state of Chiapas.
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“In Mexico, in addition to the structural challenges that have affected indigenous peoples, generating significant gaps regarding inequality, marginalization and access to their rights, indigenous peoples also face violence from different actors, including organized crime groups, who dispute the control of their territory. Leaders of these peoples are particularly exposed to reprisals or violent actions due to their visibility when defending their territory and way of life. Their assassinations or disappearances have a chilling effect on all indigenous people…”
Dehumanizing the other is a prior step to the violation of their human rights. The transformation of the immigrant experience into an abstract statistic, into a criminal act, into an excuse to manipulate or settle extraneous and extemporaneous political conflicts, are forms of this erasure of the human that entails violence. This is the current case of the migrant population, which has become a wild card in political struggles within the territory of the United States.
The Dehumanization of the Immigrant and Political Warfare in the U.S. READ MORE »
