CNDH issues precautionary measures to Baja California authorities in favor of Tijuana’s CERESO prison population
Persons deprived of their liberty reported various violations of their rights.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), issued precautionary measures to the State Commissioner of the Penitentiary System of Baja California, to the head of the Social Rehabilitation Center (CERESO) La Mesa, in Tijuana, and to the co-responsible authorities of that federal entity, to carry out urgent and immediate actions, with the highest human rights standards, to respect human dignity, as well as to protect and guarantee the basic needs of the prison population.
This National Commission also requested that, under any circumstance, the use of force be avoided, in order to safeguard the psychophysical integrity, health and life of said persons and of the personnel working in the CERESO, in order to avoid the irreparable consummation of violations denounced by the persons deprived of their liberty, or the production of damages that are difficult to repair.
The above, after the CNDH learned, through various media, that persons deprived of liberty housed in Modules I and II, in the CERESO La Mesa, in Tijuana, have carried out acts of protest through a riot, in order to express various claims related to the lack of food, medicines, as well as mistreatment committed against them and threats to transfer them to other prisons.
Más información:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-04/COM_2021_098.pdf