CEDHJ Reports Torture Complaints Spike 500% in Mexican State of Jalisco teleSUR
go to original December 13, 2015

Activists protest state violence in Mexico after the murder of journalist Ruben Espinoza, activist Nadia Vera, and two other women in August 2015. (Agence France-Presse)

The northern Mexican state of Jalisco has suffered a 500 percent increase in torture complaints against security forces this year, Mexico’s newspaper Reforma reported Sunday.

The exponential increase is based on the number of torture complaints documented by Jalisco’s state human rights commission CEDHJ, which reports a total of 144 torture reports in 2015, compared with 24 complaints registered in 2014.

The majority of 2015 torture complaints make reference to security forces and other state bodies linked to the Attorney General’s office or PGR as alleged perpetrators of cruel and unusual treatment against detainees. The remaining cases allege that national defense forces or local police were involved in carrying out torture.

Jalisco went under a red alert earlier this year amid a spike in cartel-related violence in the state.

The reported incidence of murder, torture, forced disappearances, femicide, and other human rights abuses has soared in Mexico under President Enrique Peña Nieto, with widespread impunity enjoyed by perpetrators fueling abuses.

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