Nuevo León.- The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued a recommendation addressed to the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) for the arbitrary detention and torture of a person in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon.
Recommendation 006/2022 of the autonomous body headed by Rosario Piedra Ibarra addressed to the head of the Sedena, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval Gonzalez, corresponds to the events recorded in 2011, when agents of the Mexican Army detained and tortured a man in the aforementioned municipality of Nuevo León.
Given this, the National Human Rights Commission asked the federal agency, in coordination with the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims, to proceed to fully repair the damage caused to the victim, while requesting that it collaborate in the process and follow up on the complaint of facts that the agency will present to the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), in order to investigate and determine the responsibility of the soldiers who, both by action and omission, participated in the reported events.
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The body announced that it was on March 13, 2019 when it received a complaint from the victim indicating that on September 13, 2011, at approximately 6 in the afternoon, he was detained by Army agents.
“They pointed their weapons at him, to later forcefully enter his home, where they beat him and from where he was taken to various places, including an abandoned house,” he explained.
The CNDH pointed out that the man was beaten in several parts of the body by elements of the Sedena, who, in addition to covering his face, gave him electric shocks in the armpits and on his genitals.
“Covered in the face, beaten in the stomach, in the ribs and in the buttocks; that he received electric shocks in the armpits and in the testicles and was forced to recognize photographs that military personnel showed him while they pointed a firearm at him,” he detailed.
In the file made up by the federal agency, it was possible to gather sufficient information to demonstrate that the man was not arrested on the street, as reported by the authorities, but rather in his own home; coupled with this, the intrusion of the Army into his home did not correspond to any search warrant, nor was he committing any crime, in addition to having remained in the custody of the agents for 13 hours.
“There are inaccuracies on the part of the responsible authorities regarding the facts that led to the arrest, as well as the circumstances of time, place and manner in which it was carried out; it was proven that in addition to the illegal and unjustified search, there was a violation of the rights to liberty and personal security, and it was possible to conclude that the alteration and misrepresentation of statements in the availability constitutes a manipulation of facts and of the object of the investigation”, he referred.
It was possible to verify, based on the medical certificate issued by Sedena, in the opinion of physical integrity issued by the former Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and medical examinations, which the victim was torturedthereby violating their human rights.
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In the recommendation, the CNDH also asked the Secretary of Defense design and teach a comprehensive course on respect for human rights, whose emphasis should be on the application of the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, addressed to the personnel of the seventh Military Zone, based in Escobedo, Nuevo León.
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