Mexican Federal Preventative Police (PFP) in Oaxaca City used tear gas and water cannons against a demonstration by local women Nov. 19, following accounts of sexual abuses by the police troops. Some women carried signs reading "Oaxaca is not a brothel," or mirrors with the words "I am a rapist" written across them that were held up to the police lines. (La Jornada [1], Nov. 19)
The Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights (Limeddh) has formally complained to the federal authorities as well as Amnesty International about the case of a 48-year-old woman harassed and sexually abused by PFP troops when they entered Oaxaca City's historic center on Oct. 29. (APRO [2], Nov. 17)
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See our last posts on Mexico and the Oaxaca crisis [4] and Mexico's human rights crisis [5].
