CNDH requests National Guard to protect human rights defenders and residents of Ayotitlán, Jalisco

Requests the implementation of precautionary measures to safeguard their integrity in the face of acts of violence perpetrated by organized crime.

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) requests the National Guard (GN) to implement precautionary measures to safeguard the life, safety and physical integrity of human rights defenders José Guerrero Flores, José de Jesús Castolo López and Eduardo Arturo Mosqueda Sánchez, as well as the inhabitants of the indigenous community of Ayotitlán, belonging to the municipality of Cuautitlán de García Barragán, Jalisco.

In recent days, CNDH staff held a meeting with these people, representatives of the community of Ayotitlán, who denounced the acts of violence – such as intimidation, death threats, illegal detentions, deprivation of liberty, homicides and forced disappearance – of which they have been victims by organized crime, allegedly with the consent of local authorities, for defending their lands.

Given the risk in which this community finds itself, this Autonomous Organism requests the NG to implement the necessary measures to guarantee the life, physical safety and personal integrity of its inhabitants and that of their representatives-defenders, who accompany them during the proceedings promoted for the defense of their rights.

The precautionary measures have already been notified to the authority, and the CNDH will follow up on their implementation and compliance.

More information:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-04/COM_2021_116.pdf