Controversy:
The Dead Women of Juarez
Amnesty:
"Since 1993, almost 400 women and s have been murdered and more than 70 remain missing in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. While Amnesty International commends the recent measures taken by the Mexican government, the response remains inadequate. Read more. » "
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/juarez/
Reports
- Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua
Feb 28, 2005 - Mexico: Ending the brutal cycle of violence
Mar 7, 2004 - Mexico: Intolerable Killings: 10 years of abductions and murder of women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua
Aug 10, 2003 - Mexico: Intolerable Killings : 10 years of Abductions and Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua: Summary Report and Appeals Cases
Aug 10, 2003
http://www.ocregister.com/news/2004/juarez/part7.shtml
Isabel Arvide, Journalist
"Her life fell apart when she investigated a friend’s disappearance in Juárez... A journalist lands in prison after investigating her friend’s disappearance."
"Isabel has been stripped of her clothing. Female guards have probed inside her to make sure nothing is hidden.
They return her clothes to her, then lead her through a maze of dark corridors to a five-cell block. Hours later, she's still waiting to find out why she's here. She's consumed with fear that she'll be killed.
After interviewing a politician in Chihuahua earlier that day, she was at the airport, waiting for her return flight to Mexico City, when a group of men surrounded her. They weren't in uniform but identified themselves as federal judicial police, then forced her out of the airport and into a truck with no police logo."
"The Mexico Solidarity Network is committed to developing these grassroots alliances on both sides of the US-Mexico border, and organizing to promote dialogue and collective action for social change. "
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/
The other side:
"Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- Víctor Javier García still has a dozen marks across his abdomen and genitals from the burning cigarettes the police used to him into falsely confessing to being a serial killer. -- It made no difference to a lower court judge that the DNA tests on the bodies identified as his victims were not conclusive."
Men convicted of Mexico killings
"Ten alleged gang members have been given lengthy jail sentences for their involvement in the murders of 12 women in a city in northern Mexico.
Each of the men, thought to be members of the Toltecs and Rebels gangs, were jailed for at least 40 years.
More than 300 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez, on the US-Mexico border, since 1993.
Human rights groups say they are concerned that the number of women killed could be much higher.
Many of the cases remain unresolved.
Rape
Four bus drivers, all thought to be loyal to a criminal gang known as the Toltecs (Los Toltecas), were sentenced to between 40 and 113 years in prison.
They were found guilty of raping and murdering of six women.
Officials in the attorney general's office in the state capital, Chihuahua, said six alleged members of another gang known as the Rebels (Los Rebeldes) were jailed for between 24 and 40 years for murdering six other women."
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/americas/4155551.stm
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