14:00 hrs. 30/06/2017THANK YOU TO YOUR SUPPORT ALL OF THE DETAINED HAVE LEFT FREEURGENT ACTION
AU-02-Chiapas/FNLS—29/junio/2017 Arbitrary detention of members of FNLS in the toll booth of Chiapa de Corzo, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas during an informative flyering session concerning the exhumation case of the minor Humberto Morales from the National Front in the Struggle for Socialism.
Mexico City on June 29th 2017
Enrique Peña Nieto
President of the Republic
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong (…)
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ALL FREE - Urgent Action - Arbitrary detention of members of FNLS in the toll booth of Chiapa de Corzo, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas during an informative flyering session concerning the exhumation case of the minor Humberto Morales from the National Front in the Struggle for Socialism.
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Families of Mexico’s disappeared mount protest
30 May 2017, by Comité Cerezo México30 de Mayo de 2017
Mexico City, May 30 (efe-epa).- Hundreds of relatives of people who disappeared while in the custody of police or soldiers marched in the Mexican capital on Tuesday to demand accountability for the fate of their loved ones.
Participants made their way from the Government Secretariat, which has authority over federal law-enforcement agencies, to the office of the prosecutor responsible for pursuing violators of human rights.
Once there, a delegation of marchers met (…) -
Sign in repudiation of the extrajudicial execution of Humberto Morales, a 13 year old child and member of the FNLS in Chiapas
5 March 2017, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoUrgent Action
AU-01-Chiapas/FNLS-04 de marzo de 2017
Extrajudicial Execution of Humberto Morales Sántiz, a 13-year-old child and member of the National Front for the Struggle for Socialism in Chiapas (FNLS for its initials in Spanish).
Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto Presidente de la República Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong Secretario de Gobernación Manuel Velazco Coello Gobernador del Estado de Chiapas Juan Carlos Gómez Aranda Secretario de Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas Raciel López Salazar (…) -
PBI reinforces support for Cerezo Committee after death threats
28 December 2016, by Comité Cerezo México27.12.2016
PBI reinforces support for Cerezo Committee after death threats
Mexico City, 27 december 2016.- PBI reiterates its concerns regarding the threats, harassment and persecution suffered by members of the Cerezo Committee in recent months. It is worth remembering that on September 30, a drawing with a death threat against the Cerezo Contreras brothers, appeared on a wall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Languages of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
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Mexican environmental grassroots protest: what does it mean to resist and defend the territory in a repressive context?
5 December 2016, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoMoreover, from June 2014 to the end of May 2015, the following incidents have been recorded: 459 arbitrary arrests; 330 cases of attacks, threats, harassment; 224 people denied freedom for political reasons; 459 documented cases of torture; 47 extrajudicial executions (ACUDDEH, Comité Cerezo México and Campaña Nacional Contra la Desaparición Forzada, 2015).
Mexican environmental grassroots protest: what does it mean to resist and defend the territory in a repressive context?
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"I want my husband back, and I want him alive"
30 August 2016, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoBy Sebastiana Pérez Hernández
Sebastiana has a sad look on her eyes.
For more than five months, she has been demanding the Mexican authorities find her husband Fidencio Gómez Sántiz. She wants him back, and alive. So far, her demands have been met with silence.
Sebastiana Pérez Hernández is a 45-year-old woman and is the mother of two children. She speaks the indigenous language tzeltal and lives in the village of Las Perlas, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas. She is a member of (…) -
Mexico, a Democracy Where People Disappear at the Hands of the State
27 August 2016, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe Cerezo Committee is the leading Mexican organisation in the documentation of politically motivated or other forced disappearances.
By Daniela Pastrana
This article is part of IPS coverage of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, celebrated Aug. 30
MEXICO CITY, Aug 26 2016 (IPS) - “Go and tell my dad that they’re holding me here,” Maximiliano Gordillo Martínez told his travelling companion on May 7 at the migration station in Chablé, in the southern (…) -
Mexico: Too Close to the US?
24 de marzo de 2016, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoOn another day, we met with Comite Cerezo at UNAM. The committee works with victims (including relatives) of arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killing and forced disappearance
By Ed Kinane and Ann Tiffany, Speakout | Op-Ed
This past November, during its 25th annual convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia, Roy Bourgeois of School of the Americas Watch made a momentous announcement. In 2016, this event will instead be held in early October in Nogales, Arizona — divided from Nogales, Mexico, (…) -
Urgent Action: Enforced disappearance of Fidencio Gómez Sántiz (indigenous member of Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) in Ocosingo, Chiapas
24 March 2016, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoUrgent Action: Enforced disappearance of Fidencio Gómez Sántiz (indigenous member of Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) in Ocosingo, Chiapas
AU-02-Chiapas / FNLS-23 / March / 2016
Mexico City, March 23, 2016
Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto President of Mexico Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong Interior Secretary Manuel Velazco Coello Governor of Chiapas Juan Carlos Gómez Aranda Interior Secretary of Chiapas Raciel López Salazar Attorney General of Chiapas Dr. Raúl Plascencia Villanueva (…) -
Mexico: Security concern for members of the National Front for Socialism
18 November 2015, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoOn 16 November 2015, the National Front for Socialism initiated a second round of activities in Mexico City to denounce the situation faced by indigenous human rights defenders in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
During a campaign launched the previous week, human rights defenders Matías Flores, Jesús Hernández Reyes and Rubicél Hernández García were shot.
The National Front for Socialism (Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo, FNLS) is a grassroots movement working to (…)