The Mexican petitioners [...] listed four frequent types of perpetrators: (1) military members, (2) persons in uniform, (3) paramilitary troops, and (4) persons who are highly armed and can maintain control over an area through violence and intimidation. Complete impunity for perpetrators  (...)

With Comité Cerezo’s advising, the families prepared a detailed account of the youths’ disappearance and a review of the PGR and PGJ’s performance. The document was presented to the UN Committee of Enforced Disappearances, whose leaders accepted it, according to notification on November 10th.
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Civil society organizations, social movements and victims strongly reject the Memorial proposed by President Calderon
MEXICO CITY, November 27 2012. – According to media reports, the Federal government has announced the forthcoming inauguration of a Memorial to the Victims of violence in Mexico,  (...)

The Cerezo Committee celebrated its 11th anniversary on August 13th, during the last ten years of which they have received PBI accompaniment. Since its foundation, the Committee has received 13 death threats and continued harassment. Stigmatization has closed many doors for them, especially  (...)

«This is recognition of a collective 11-year effort that has been marked by death threats, harassment and the denunciation of issues that few organizations, unfortunately, document,» such as forced disappearances, extralegal executions and imprisonment for political reasons, Cerezo told Efe.  (...)

I am member of a mixed organization called Comité Cerezo México. Its origin was the illegal detention, torture and imprisonment in maximum security prisons of three brothers in 2001: Alejandro, Héctor and Antonio Cerezo Contreras, along with a náhuatl indigenous man named Pablo Alvarado Flores, all  (...)

Death threats against human rights defenders of COMITÉ CEREZO MÉXICO (Cerezo Committee), ACUDDEH (granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission) and their families.
FACTS:
On November 8 at 12:38 PM, a message containing death threats arrived in the electronic mail  (...)

Entrevistas is a publication of PBI Mexico that highlights issues regarding the defense of human rights, focusing on those situations that increase risks to the physical or psychological integrity of Mexican human rights defenders, or that damage the legitimacy of their work. The opinions  (...)