Exhort to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the State of Veracruz, regarding the Ernestina Ascencio Rosario case

Presumed violations of the right to sexual freedom, the right to life, and the right to health protection.

Although on February 25, 2007, relatives of Ernestina Ascencio and hospital officials denounced the sexual assault to the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Veracruz (PGJV), originating investigation 140/2007/AE for rape and subsequent homicide. And although on February 27, 2007 the National Human Rights Commission opened the complaint file number 2007/901/2/Q, which resulted in the issuance of Recommendation 34/2007, however, to date full justice is still a claim because there is a lack of attention to the relatives of Mrs. Ernestina Ascencio, who demand the clarification of the investigations.

By virtue of the generalized doubts in the treatment of this case and, in order to strengthen the clarification of the events of February 25, 2007, this National Commission publicly urges the Attorney General of the State of Veracruz to give her instructions to the Coordinating Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Indigenous Affairs and Human Rights through the Coordination of Indigenous Affairs and the Coordination of Human Rights to reopen the investigation with the corresponding legal consequences and to facilitate the processes of memory, truth, justice and reparation.

This National Commission offers its full cooperation, within the framework of its attributions, and also urges that, together with the Ministry of the Interior through its Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration, a process of investigation be initiated that is capable of generating a conciliation between the Mexican State and the victims without the need to resort to supranational instances.

More information:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-04/COM_2021_097.pdf