Mexico´s faces a test to end torture of women by police and military
Mexico´s faces a test to end torture of women by police and military
By Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International @ErikaGuevaraR, 12 July 2016, 17:15 UTC
Verónica Razo, a Mexican 37-year-old mother of three is terrified of sleeping. Every night, when she lies in her bed in a small cell in Morelo's’ federal prison, an hour outside the capital, Mexico City, her mind replays the scariest 24 hours of her life.
On 8 June 2011 federal police raped, suffocated and electrocuted her in a warehouse in Mexico City. She was tortured so badly that she almost died as a result. Police wanted her to say that she belonged to one of the brutal criminal gangs causing mayhem across the country. She has been behind bars since then.
Verónica’s story should be an exception; a terrible aberration; the result of a few “bad apples” within Mexico´s security forces. Tragically, it is not.
A groundbreaking report published by Amnesty International details the harrowing testimonies of 100 women who have been arrested by Mexico´s police or military, the majority during the current President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December 2012.
More:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/07/mexico-s-faces-a-test-to-end-torture-of-women-by-police-and-military/
