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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2007 
Four Spanish Citizens Arrested in Oaxaca
 Prensa Latina
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| | Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, looks on during a press conference in Mexico City, Tuesday Aug. 7, 2007. Amnesty International has urged Mexican federal officials to investigate allegations of police abuse during more than a year of political unrest in southern Oaxaca city. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) |
The arrest of four Spanish citizens in the Mexican southern state of Oaxaca was denounced Friday by Mexican Senator Rosario Ibarra, president of the Mexican Senate Human Rights Commission.
The Mexican senator presented a judicial resource to avoid the deportation of the arrested people, starting from a denouncing made by Laia Sierra, a lawyer of the International Civil Commission of Observation of Human Rights.
Sierra investigates demands of human rights violations occurred during the 2006 events in Atenco and Oaxaca, and she said that a Mexican Public Ministry agent told the Spanish citizens they were accused of public scandal.
Senator Ibarra said that after the arrest of the Spanish citizens last Sunday, their own statements saying they were tortured, and that three women of the group suffered sexual abuse were let known.
The names of the three girls and the young man, besides a Mexican citizen who was with them, were not revealed, and their sending to an arrest center in this capital was not confirmed by the authorities. |
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