On August 27, in an event in Mexico City, the Cerezo Committee Mexico celebrated its ninth annivesary as an organisation in defence of human rights, and also presented its new report Prison: a form of criminalisation of social protest in Mexico (2002-2008). Emilio Álvarez Icaza, human rights specialist, has described the report as “basic material for any political debate about justice”.
PBI has accompanied members of the Cerezo Committee since 2002 and was present at the event in order to celebrate the development of the organisation, which was created to protest against the unfair imprisonment of the brothers Alejandro, Hector and Antonio Cerezo. Today the Committee, as well as documenting cases of political prisoners, also gives capacitation and security workshops to social organisations throughout Mexico, and publishes its own magazine, Revuelta.
See the press release from Cencos, regarding the Committee's anniversary