Preventing acts of torture
CNDH addresses recommendation to the SSPC for acts of torture against three people, attributable to members of the Federal Police.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued Recommendation 73/2020 to the head of the office of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Ricardo Mejia Berdeja, for violations of the human rights to personal integrity and security, as well as dignified treatment through acts of torture against three people, attributable to personnel of the then Federal Police (PF), Anti-Drug Division, Jalisco.
After investigating the facts, which occurred on September 11, 2015 on the Acatlán de Juárez-Ciudad Guzmán highway in the direction of Guadalajara, the CNDH found that the detention of the victims occurred in circumstances different from those referred to by personnel of the then PF, having been accredited that, After their respective arrests, two of them were beaten and the three received threats to make them accept that there had been a confrontation and that they resisted the arrest.
After their arrest, the three people were evaluated by SEIDO’s expert personnel, who diagnosed two of them with non-life-threatening injuries that would take less than fifteen days to heal; meanwhile, a medical specialist diagnosed the third with “cranioencephalic traumatism grade I, contusion of the right hemithorax and bilateral thoracic paravertebral region and contusion of the right elbow”. Medical personnel of the CNDH concluded that the injuries inflicted on two of the victims were unnecessary for their restraint and subjugation; meanwhile, those presented by the third person were produced during the restraint maneuvers.
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2020-12/REC_2020_073.pdf