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Incident on 28 June 2011 [+] Print this page

Location: Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León [+]

Country: Mexico [+]

Violation types: Violations against the right to liberty [+]

Perpetrator classifications: Navy [+]

Location


This incident took place in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico [+]

Description


According to Human Rights Watch: "Less than a week later—on June 28—René Azael Jasso Maldonado, 26, another taxi driver, was arbitrarily detained in the middle of the night at his family’s home in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León. According to his mother, father, and brother—all of whom were home at the time—10 armed, masked men carried out the raid wearing Navy uniforms. The armed men entered the home without a warrant and first grabbed René’s brother, Oziel Antonio Jasso Maldonado, holding him facedown at gunpoint and yelling, “You are an halcón!”—the name for people who work as lookouts for criminal groups—before another man in Navy uniform entered and said Oziel was not the person they were looking for. They then took René, who was in the next room, and loaded him into an official Navy vehicle. It was the last time they saw him." [+]

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