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Mexico: Rights lawyer Grisell Pérez disappeared for 200 days

Sem categoria 12/10/2021 Leave a comment

12/10/21

[Alerta Urgente] MÉXICO / Reportan como desaparecida desde el pasado 26 de marzo, en el Estado de México, a la defensora Grisell Pérez.
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ONU-DH exige condena la desaparición de las las defensoras Grisell Pérez y Claudia Uruchurtu
Cinco meses sin rastro de la activista Grisell Pérez, exigen búsqueda exhaustiva

https://lasillarota.com/nacion/onu-pide-esclarecer-desapariciones-de-activistas-de-dh-en-mexico/517592

Urge ONU localización de activistas desaparecidas

Mexico: A prominent lawyer was brutally murdered

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14/05/21

Abel Murrieta fue asesinado en Cajeme. (Especial)

The murder of Abel Murrieta should get Americans’ attention.

On Thursday, an assassin or assassins riddled the 58-year-old Murrieta with bullets while campaigning for mayor of Cajeme, a town in the border state of Sonora, Mexico.

Mexican authorities didn’t say how he died nor have offered any possible motives, but surely this wasn’t an ordinary murder. Graphic images of his body lying on the street quickly made the rounds on social media, sparking outrage and accusations.

Murrieta, the former attorney general of Sonora, which shares a 372-mile-long border with Arizona, was also the lawyer of the LeBarón family that lost nine members in a brutal 2019 ambush.

That 2019 massacre of three mothers and six children – members of a fundamentalist Mormon community that has historic ties to Mesa – shook the world for the brutality of the attack while they were driving through the neighboring state of Chihuahua.

Murrieta’s murder has many possible motives

Speaking to the Spanish newspaper El País, Adrían LeBarón summed up Murrieta’s murder perfectly in Mexico’s complex web of violence that has left a trail of political candidates and drug-related deaths.

“This crime has 20 angles (motives) and all of them are correct,” he told El País in Spanish.

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https://eu.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021/05/14/abel-murrieta-brutally-murdered-mexico-why-us-should-care/5100587001/

https://www.milenio.com/politica/elecciones-2021/abel-murrieta-gutierrez-quien-fue-el-candidato-en-cajeme (ESPANOL)

https://www.milenio.com/politica/elecciones-2021/matan-abel-murrieta-candidato-cajeme-procurador-sonora

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2021/05/14/paso-a-paso-asi-fue-el-cobarde-asesinado-de-abel-murrieta-candidato-a-la-alcaldia-de-cajeme/

https://www.unotv.com/estados/sonora/quien-fue-abel-murrieta-candidato-asesinado-en-cajeme/

Mexico: “Lawyers who defend companies against electricity reform commit treason against their country.” – AMLO

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24/02/21

In its usual morning conference from the National Palace, Lopez Obrador stated that the natural gas crisis in Texas, United States, only reaffirms his work plan that the Mexican State should be the one to guarantee the energy supply. 

“It is a shame that Mexican lawyers are employed by foreign companies that want to continue plundering Mexico; of course, they are free, but hopefully they will internalize that this is treason,” (SIC) criticized AMLO. 

He remarked that the population’s welfare could not be left in private companies’ hands because it is a fallacy that the free market will solve all problems. He also made it clear that the State cannot fail to fulfill its social responsibility or suffocate private initiative. For this reason, he celebrated the fact that Mexico was able to solve the electric energy crisis in five days because the plants of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) that work with coal, fuel oil, and the hydroelectric plants of the Grijalva River were at the disposal of the State. T

According to the President, previous governments wanted to turn the CFE facilities into scrap to keep the electricity market. However, thanks to the fact that his government rescued them, it was possible to face the crisis caused by natural gas. 

Since the beginning of AMLO’s Fourth-Transformation or “4T”, the legal profession has not been spared from the attacks and accusations of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Yesterday we saw it again.

For the President of the Republic, the legal profession’s free exercise ends when his “interests are violated.” In his eyes, the litigants turn against the country and “its people.”

Since the beginning of the government, many litigators have been threatened, harassed, and persecuted by AMLO’s government —most of them in the fiscal and criminal areas.

Multiple firms such as Javier Coello Trejo’s, José Luis Nassar Daw, Diego Ruiz, Ángel Junquera, and Fernando Ruiz were harassed and pressured to drop high-impact cases and defenses.

The hostilities have already been the object of denunciations abroad before instances such as the International Bar Association and the U.S. Department of Justice itself.

The issue will continue to grow because as long as López Obrador radicalizes his absolutist positions, such as the preferential initiative being voted today for the Electricity Industry Law, resistance will increase.

The chambers and business associations are entrenching themselves in the National Council of Strategic Litigation, a body of lawyers who work pro bono and seek to curtail the authoritarianism and unreasonableness of the 4T.

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“Lawyers who defend companies against electricity reform commit treason against their country.” – AMLO

https://www.milenio.com/politica/amlo-abogados-reforma-electrica-cometen-traicion (ESPANOL)

Rechazan abogados mexicanos las ofensas de AMLO en su contra

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/opinion/dario-celis/traidores-a-la-patria

https://www.debate.com.mx/politica/Abogados-responden-a-AMLO-por-llamarlos-traidores-a-la-patria-20210224-0031.html

http://www.omnia.com.mx/noticia/174585/responden-abogados-a-amlo-por-acusarlos-de-traicion-a-la-patria

Abogados mexicanos rechazan ofensas de AMLO en su contra

https://www.meganoticias.mx/cdmx/noticia/abogados-exigen-freno-a-intimidaciones-de-lopez-obrador/222947

Mexico: Asesinado en estacionamiento de tienda era un abogado penalista

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04/10/19

Durante la tarde de ayer fue privado de la vida a balazos un hombre, en el estacionamiento de un super mercado Soriana. Fue identificado como abogado penalista, con lo que suman cinco profesionistas ejecutados de ese ramo en lo que va del año 2019.

Apenas durante la mañana había sido ejecutado otro hombre en el exterior de otro centro comercial de esa misma compañía.

Sobre el muerto de la tarde, ocurrió entre los bulevares Independencia y Zaragoza, al cual se identificó como Marco Gloria Ruvalcaba, profesional del Derecho.

Nota relacionada:

Fueron testigos del hecho, quienes denunciaron al número de emergencia el homicidio perpetrado, mientras decenas de personas circulaban por el estacionamiento de dicho establecimiento.

Los primeros informes mencionan que la víctima descendió de una camioneta Ford F150 y los sicarios ya se encontraban esperándolo para dispararle, causando pánico en los clientes que se encontraban en el lugar, mismos que se ocultaron entre los autos para evitar ser blanco de las balas.

Tras cometer la acción, delincuentes huyeron de la escena del crimen, mientras que la víctima quedó tendida sin vida en el lugar.

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https://www.periodicoelmexicano.com.mx/policiaca/asesinado-en-estacionamiento-de-tienda-era-un-abogado-penalista-4269566.html

http://puentelibre.mx/noticia/lamentan_homicidio_del_abogado_marco_gloria_ciudad_juarez/

https://diario.mx/juarez/indaga-fiscalia-entorno-laboral-de-abogado-asesinado-ayer-20191004-1570184.html

https://diario.mx/juarez/acribillado-en-estacionamiento-de-supermercado-era-abogado-penalista-20191003-1569913.html

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(L’Observatoire des Avocats Facebook, 06/10/19)

OIAD/France: Un observatoire pour les avocats en danger

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le 9 août, 2019

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De longue date, les avocats parisiens ont su mettre en avant leur engagement pour le respect des droits de la défense et la protection de leurs confrères. En France bien sûr, mais aussi à l’étranger avec une tradition d’échanges avec les avocats du monde entier. Un travail qu’accomplit aujourd’hui l’Observatoire international des avocats en danger.

Il semble inconcevable d’imaginer un système juridique qui fait valoir les droits de tous les justiciables sans se représenter le rôle de l’avocat. Si son intégrité et son indépendance paraissent être le minimum requis pour qu’il puisse exercer son métier, ces fondamentaux ne sont hélas pas toujours respectés à travers le monde. Avocats assassinés, emprisonnés ou persécutés, les exemples d’atteinte violente à la profession ne manquent pas, de la Turquie à la Chine en passant par l’Égypte, le Mexique ou l’Inde. À ce sujet, le rapport 2018 de l’Institut des droits de l’Homme des avocats européens (IDHAE) ne dénombrait d’ailleurs pas moins de 379 avocats « en danger parce qu’ils tentent de faire leur métier ».

Une thématique sur laquelle le barreau de Paris s’engage également : le 22 mai dernier était organisée une présentation débat autour du rapport de Human Rights Watch : « Des avocats traduits en justice : poursuites abusives et érosion du droit à un procès équitable en Turquie », à la maison du Barreau à Paris. Une rencontre qui faisait écho à un autre événement mis en place par les avocats parisiens le 24 janvier, la Journée internationale de l’avocat en danger, qui était justement consacrée à la situation turque cette année. Le 11 avril dernier encore, c’était Shirin Ebadi qui était accueillie. Avocate et juge iranienne, Prix Nobel de la paix, elle a dû fuir son pays en 2009 en raison de son combat pour les des droits de l’Homme et vit depuis en exil. Toutes ces actions sont menées sous la bannière de l’Observatoire international des avocats en danger (OIAD), une initiative lancée conjointement avec le CNB et deux barreaux étrangers en 2015 pour défendre les avocats menacés au cours de l’exercice de leur métier. L’Observatoire effectue un travail de veille et d’information pour tenter d’enrayer les atteintes au droit à la défense à travers le monde. Avec une structure qui se veut inclusive et ouverte à tous les barreaux, il a déjà été rejoint par 30 d’entre eux en qualité de membre actif.

Entretien croisé avec Basile Ader, vice-bâtonnier du barreau de Paris, et Anne Souleliac, administratrice de l’OIAD.

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Un observatoire pour les avocats en danger

https://www.protect-lawyers.com/fr/

Mexico: Clients of disappeared human rights lawyer Ernesto Serna García acquitted

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November 8, 2018

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On 6 November 2018, 22 members of Sol Rojo announced that they were acquitted of the charges against them after three years of a judicial process marked by irregularities. The group was legally represented by human rights defender and lawyer Dr. Ernesto Sernas García, who disappeared on 10 May 2018, in circumstances related to this case. His work was essential to the present outcome.

Dr. Ernesto Sernas Garcia is a Constitutional Law professor at Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. He had been legally representing the 22 members of Sol Rojo. He disappeared on 10 May 2018, just before submitting the evidence that resulted in the acquittal of the activists.

On 6 November 2018, the 22 activists members of Sol Rojo announced that they were acquitted of the charges of terrorism and carrying of explosives filed against them on 7 June 2015, when they were arbitrarily arrested for participating in a peaceful demonstration. The criminal procedures following the arrest were marked by irregularities and human rights violations of the defendants, including reports of torture in custody. Before his disappearance, Ernesto Sernas Garcia had gathered key evidence that proved the innocence of the Sol Rojo members and demonstrated the pattern of criminalisation against them.

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https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/disappearance-human-rights-defender-dr-ernesto-sernas-garcia

http://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/en/lat-amerika/2662-actions-for-dr-ernesto-sernas-garcia-in-ecuador

Click to access EN_HRL_20180817_Mexico_Disappearance-of-lawyer-Dr-Ernesto-Sernas-Garcia.pdf

http://oaxaca.eluniversal.com.mx/estatal/06-11-2018/organizaciones-de-oaxaca-exigen-presentacion-con-vida-de-abogado (ESPANOL)

http://consorciooaxaca.org.mx/denunciamos-falta-de-avances-en-la-investigacion-de-la-desaparicion-de-ernesto-sernas/ (ESPANOL)

http://oaxaca.eluniversal.com.mx/estatal/30-08-2018/denuncian-nulos-avances-en-la-investigacion-de-la-desaparicion-ernesto-sernas (ESPANOL)

Brazil/Colombia/Guatemala/Honduras/ Mexico/The Philippines: Stop the Killings

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June 21, 2018

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“Stop the Killings” analyzes the root causes of the killing of HRDs in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines.

The report is based on original research by Comitê Brasileiro de Defensoras e Defensores de Direitos Humanos – CBDDH, (Brazil), Programa Somos Defensores (Colombia), UDEFEGUA (Guatemala), ACI-Participa (Honduras), Comité Cerezo (Mexico) and iDEFEND, Karapatan and Pahra (Philippines).

With a forward from United Natiosn Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Michel Forst and introduction by Front Line Defenders Exective Director Andrew Anderson, “Stop the Killings” is a vital resource for understanding the current and alarming increase of killings of human rights defenders globally.

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https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-report/stop-killings

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/violation/killing

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/front-line-defenders-new-report-says-majority-of-human-rights-defenders-killings-in-2017-were-related-to-mega-projects-in-extractive-industry

https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/spike-in-murder-rate-of-human-rights-defenders-472131.html

International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute ANNUAL REVIEW 2017

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The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has launched its 2017 Annual Review, providing an overview of the IBAHRI’s major activities over the year.

2017 was a difficult year for human rights: since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 70 years ago, it appears that we are now reaching a point where the universal acceptance of human rights is being eroded. Increasingly polarised political spheres and growing support for populist governments are resulting in policies that scapegoat minorities, attack the under-represented and persecute those who oppose these governments.

In this atmosphere, protection of human rights, the rule of law and an independent legal profession are more important than ever. This makes the work of the IBAHRI more important than ever. Since its establishment in 1995, the IBAHRI has endeavoured to defend fundamental human rights through the promotion and protection of the independence of the legal profession, and by providing members of the global legal community with the tools needed to do the same.

 

As part of its ongoing projects in the Americas, the IBAHRI provided torture-prevention training to legal professionals, including judges and public defenders, across Brazil and Mexico. In El Salvador, the IBAHRI brought a high-level delegation of experts on the rights to justice, truth and historical memory to meet with legal professionals, the executive, armed forces, CSOs and academia with a view to achieving justice effectively and realising the rights of those who suffered human rights abuses as a result of the 12-year civil war. Additionally, the IBAHRI continued to monitor the emblematic trial of Venezuelan Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, and sent open letters to President Donald Trump of the United States, which criticised the President and his administration for actions the IBAHRI felt were ‘diametrically opposed to the defence of human rights’.

In Asia Pacific, the IBAHRI worked with the newly established Independent Lawyers’ Association of Myanmar to continue its work in the country, and has been running a trial observation programme to ensure those responsible for the death of prominent lawyer U Ko Ni are brought to justice. In Timor-Leste, the IBAHRI has consolidated its presence in the country by seeking to strengthen the legal profession and supporting the creation of its first national bar association.

The IBAHRI launched a mentorship programme for junior Azerbaijani lawyers that linked them with more experienced senior lawyers, and held a Law Student Conference in Baku, among other activities intended to advocate for the rights of legal professionals in the country. We also facilitated attendance at various OSCE Meetings for lawyers in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan as part of the IBAHRI’s ongoing work in Europe and Central Asia.

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https://www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/Human-Rights-Institute-Annual-Review-2017.aspx

https://www.protect-lawyers.com/fr/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/23/joint-letter-eu-regarding-human-rights-situation-tajikistan

In Tajikistan, reforms undertaken by the Qualifications Committee set up by the Ministry of Justice drastically decreased the number of practising lawyers.

Read more about the situation of Tajik lawyers and the work the IBAHRI has done in partnership with the Tajikistan Barristers’ Union here:https://tinyurl.com/y7rhftx4

(International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute Facebook, 9/5/18)

Mexico: Liberan a abogado Salinas

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27/01/18

Liberan a abogado Salinas

El abogado de Mexicali Resiste, Armando Salinas Bravo, fue liberado a las 23:00 horas del 26 de enero por un Juez de Distrito, quien había sido aprehendido la mañana de ese mismo día por incumplir con una medida cautelar.

Desmintió que haya una notificación de la medida cautelar y de protección, asegurando que el subprocurador de la Procuraduría General de Justicias del Estado (PGJE), Fernando Ramírez Amador, no habló con la verdad al señalar que hubo un desacato de la supuesta orden.

“Pido que cese el hostigamiento a los abogados, y principalmente a los abogados del agua, si se van a realizar denuncias que sea en el marco de la legalidad, que se abstengan de estar afuera de mi domicilio hostigando a mi familia”, declaró.

Declaró que si hay un requerimiento acudirá con la frente en alto, además de que acudirá a la Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos (CEDH), por violar sus derechos durante su detención.

El abogado aseguró que al momento de su arresto no le dijeron bajo que cargo, desconociendo si existe una carpeta de investigación, si es imputado o dicha medida de protección.

http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/27012018/1304049-Liberan-a-abogado-Salinas.html

https://www.lavozdelafrontera.com.mx/mexicali/fue-arresto-ilegal-sostiene-abogado

http://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/26-01-2018/detencion-de-armando-salinas-por-violar-orden-de-alejamiento-de-cervecera-pgje

http://www.lacronica.com/Movil/EdicionEnLinea/Policiaca/Notas/1303749.html

Venezuela/Mexico: Former Venezuelan prosecutor meets Mexican attorney general

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September 1, 2017

Venezuela's former chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz speaks during a news conference at the General Prosecutor's office in San Jose

Venezuela’s former chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega met Mexico’s attorney general on Thursday, a Mexican official said, weeks after she fled her homeland accusing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of involvement in corruption.

Ortega, who was removed from her position earlier this month, said a week ago she had evidence that Maduro was involved in graft with construction company Odebrecht.

The 59-year-old Ortega has said she would give details of the corruption cases to authorities in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.

Mexican attorney general Raul Cervantes met Ortega for around 10 minutes in Mexico City, an official at the attorney general’s office said. He gave no further details of the meeting and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Late on Thursday, Ortega posted a picture on Twitter of herself with Cervantes in Mexico, saying the two had met to “coordinate actions in the fight against corruption.”

Pictures posted on social media earlier on Thursday showed Ortega arriving at Mexico City airport.

Ortega says she has been persecuted by opponents in an effort to hide details of high-level corruption and that she has proof of it.

She was a key player in Venezuela’s government before breaking with it in March. Ortega left Venezuela for Colombia and traveled to Brazil to meet prosecutors last week.

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/former-venezuelan-prosecutor-meets-mexican-attorney-general-031351040–sector.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-president-maduro-address-u-n-human-rights-134715018.html

https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2017/09/04/international-effort-to-declare-venezuelan-regime-a-criminal-organization/

http://www.europe1.fr/international/venezuela-lex-procureure-en-fuite-remet-des-documents-au-mexique-3425237 (FRANCAIS)

http://www.lafm.com.co/internacional/exfiscal-luisa-ortega-dice-ya-entrego-informacion-importante-corrupcion-venezuela/ (ESPANOL)