2014-09-06 08:12:00

Mexico: Hike in reports of police abuse


(Vatican Radio) An Amnesty International Study says that reports of torture and ill treatment, accusing Mexican police and Armed Forces,  has soared by 600 percent in the last ten years and Authorities in Mexico are failing to act.

James Blears reports from Mexico City. Listen:  
 
Amnesty International's Report is entitled: "Out of control- Torture and other ill treatment." It insists that there's a prevailing culture of tolerance and impunity to this, with only seven torturers ever... having been convicted in Federal Courts, and even less in State Courts.
 

It states that between 2010 and 2013 Mexico's Human Rights Commission received 7,000 complaints, involving beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence, and death threats. It's categorically warning that Authorities can't continue turning a blind eye to torture and ill treatment.
 

The situation has markedly worsened since Mexico's ongoing Drug War started in December 2006, when then President Felipe Calderon, publically declared war on the drug Cartels. Since then more than 100,000 have died. Mexico's Attorney General's office has yet to react, comment or issue a statement, in spite of being asked to do so.

 








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