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Damian Gallardo
20 September 2016

Voices from Oaxaca: "I will keep fighting until my husband is released"

By Lorena Cotza

Yolanda Barranco Hernández will never forget the morning of 18 May 2013. It started with a loud noise. Seven men carrying heavy weapons broke down the door of her house. They were looking for her husband, Damián Gallardo Martínez. They didn't present any warrant. They said they were there to arrest him and they took him away.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights #Protests / Assembly #Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
Violations 
#Arbitrary detention
Locations 
#Mexico
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3 July 2017

#GobiernoEspía: Widespread Mexican government surveillance of human rights defenders and organisations

By María San Martín

On 19 June, the New York Times published an in-depth article on the Mexican Government’s deployment of $80 million worth of spyware against lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders (HRDs).

Rights 
#Human Rights #Civil & Political Rights
Violations 
#Surveillance
Locations 
#Mexico

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