Enrique Guerrero Aviña Released After More Than 5 Years in Prison
On 28 December 2018, Mexican HRDs Damián Gallardo Martínez and Enrique Guerrero Aviña were released from prison after spending more than 5 years in what was determined to be an arbitrary detention.
Enrique Guerrero Aviña is a human rights defender and philosophy student at Mexico's National Autonomous University (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). He has worked to guarantee economical, social, cultural and environmental rights in Mexico, especially the right to education in marginalized areas. He is a member of the Liquidámbar human rights collective and of the University-based literary workshop Carlos Montemayor.
On 28 December 2018, Mexican HRDs Damián Gallardo Martínez and Enrique Guerrero Aviña were released from prison after spending more than 5 years in what was determined to be an arbitrary detention. Their cases drew international attention, and the release of the HRDs and their fellow detainees seems to be the beginning of the realization of the promises made by newly installed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to introduce reconciliation measures and release prisoners.
Front Line Defenders welcomes the release of Damián Gallardo Martínez and Enrique Guerrero Aviña after an unjust trial and incarceration.
