Eliseo Barrón Hernández, reporter for the newspaper La Opinion in Torreón, Coahuila, was found dead in a canal wrapped in plastic May 26, with at least 10 bullet wounds. He …
Second Durango reporter murdered in less than a month Read More »
The Mexican Episcopal Conference (Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano, CEM), is demanding justice in the killings of father Habacuc Hernández and seminarians Eduardo Oregón Benítez and Silvestre González, who were shot …
The state of Yucatán’s Attorney General’s Office announced in mid-June that it had opened an investigation into claims made by two Costa Rican women that they were kidnapped by Mexican …
A report released in mid-June by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) found that an average of 54 undocumented Central and South American migrants are kidnapped each day in Mexico. …
54 through-migrants kidnapped per day in Mexico: National Human Rights Commission Read More »
Amidst a renewed escalation of violence in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, complaints of human rights abuses continue to surface against Mexican soldiers, who now are carrying …
Claims of abuses by soldiers in Juárez continue to surface Read More »
At least 9,758 undocumented migrants from Central American countries like El Salvador and Honduras have been kidnapped in Mexico in the last six months, according to the National Commission on …
The Federal Institute of Access to Information (IFAI) has determined that the PGR should make public the figures of the Federal Public Ministry agents who failed “trust examinations”, because their …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) officially launched a complaint to investigate and determine violations of fundamental rights that various authoritie smay have incurred in the ABC nursery fire including …
Tiempo de Durango reporter Carlos Ortega Melo Samper was killed by gunmen as they attempted to kidnap him as he was returning to his home in the Santa María El …
Journalist investigating official corruption assassinated in Durango Read More »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) appealed to the Mexican government to hold the military accountable for what it characterized as systematic human rights abuses against detainees, contradicting previous official statements that …
Human Rights Watch accuses Mexican military of systematic abuses Read More »
