Nine Thousand Indigenous People in Prison in Mexico
Nine Thousand Indigenous People in Prison in Mexico
Mexico, Mar 3 (Prensa Latina) Around 9,000 indigenous people are in prison in Mexico, and most of them have not started a penal process yet, sometimes because of the lack of an interpreter or a lawyer. The information was given by Nuvia Mayorga, head of the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico (CDI).
Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla and Guerrero are the states where more indigenous peoples are in prison, said Mayorga, after the signing of an agreement in which the federal government is committed to respect and promote the human rights of the 15 million Mexican indigenous. She assured that in the last three years, 4,000 indigenous people who had easy cases and never had a lawyer or a translator, were released.
Mayorga mentioned the case of a woman who was imprisoned for three years because she defended another woman, who was being beaten by her husband. Two percent of the indigenous people are women. Several of them, are in prison because they have defended their families or any relative or friend from any kind of abuse, Mayorga commented to Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
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