“Mexico should assure the rights of association, reunion, protest and liberty of expression of Alejandro Cerezo, in every way possible, including diplomatic activities, especially in the cases recognised as criminalisation of defence, as is the that of the Comité Cerezo Mexico.”
This act has also been linked to the human rights violations that the Cerezo Contreras brothers were victims of. In august 2001, Alejando Cerezo was arbitrarily detained and cent to the Federal Social Re-adaptation Centre No. 1 “El Altiplano” where he was tortured together with his brothers Antonio and Héctor Cerezo Contreras. The authorities accused them of being supposedly responsible of having participated in the attacks against private property of banks in Mexico City. After three and a half years of arbitrary detention, Alejandro Cerezo obtained his liberty on 1st March 2005, exonerated of all charges and accusations.
The Espacio OSC publicly solicited that the Mexican State erase information referring to the previous criminal charges of the defender. It is worth highlighting that this is not the first time Alejandro Cerezo finds himself up against obstacles that restrict his freedom of movement. In 2012, travelling to Germany in order to receive the Aquisgrán Peace Prize, as a recognition of his work defending human rights, he head to wait until the airline received the authorisation before he was allowed to board the flight and fly over US air space. The same happened on the return flight.
Alejandro Contreras has precautionary measures from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.