Mexican Soldiers and a Federal Agent Caught on Tape Torturing a Woman
Source: Vice News
Mexican Soldiers and a Federal Agent Caught on Tape Torturing a Woman
By Alan Hernández
April 15, 2016 | 3:50 pm
A video showing two soldiers and a federal police agent partially suffocating a woman with a plastic bag has strengthened long-standing allegations that Mexican security forces systematically violate human rights.
The video, uploaded on YouTube earlier this week, shows a young woman being constantly abused as she sits crying on a dirt floor, with her hands tied behind her back.
It begins when her head is covered by a shirt and one of the soldiers, a woman, is yelling questions about a person named María. Moments later, the federal police officer, who is also a woman, rolls a plastic bag over the detainee's head and threatens her with electric shocks or waterboarding. At one point the female soldier points a gun to her head, asking "do you remember now?"
Media coverage of the video, which has since been removed from YouTube, led the army to release a statement on Thursday saying that the event occurred in February 2015 but that the military authorities only learned about it nearly a year later. The statement said that the two soldiers involved — a military police officer and a captain — were arrested soon after that and are currently in custody, within military jurisdiction, charged with "disobedience."
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