<media 7928>PRESS RELEASE FROM TLACHINOLLAN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER OF LA MONTAÑA</media>

• The Attorney General for Military Justice sent the investigations of Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosendo to the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic.

• It is now up to the Attorney General to bring the military personnel responsible for the rape and torture committed against Inés and Valentina to federal justice.

A group of political counsellors from European Union (EU) members states' (MS) embassies in Mexico along with the EU Delegation undertook a working visit to Chilpancingo, Guerrero, on 1 August together with Tlachinollan Human Rights Center of La Montaña and Peace Brigades International (PBI).

From 2 to 18 July 2011, a French delegation from Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT France) visited Mexico in order to gather information for an assessment concerning the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment whithin the country.

PBI would like to congratulate the work done by Mexican human rights defenders and activists who have fought and campaigned over decades to make this momentous decision possible.

Oaxaca: - In the context of her visit to Mexico from 2 to 9 July, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Dr. Navi Pillay, began her tour in Oaxaca City where, on 4 July, she met with authorities as well as human rights defenders and civil society organisations, including Peace Brigades International and local organisations accompanied by PBI in Oaxaca, such as Código-DH, Barca and Cedhapi, along with many others.

On 29 June 2011, Rafael Rodriguez Dircio, a member of the Organización del Pueblo Indígena Me'phaa (OPIM - Indigenous Me'phaa People's Organisation), and beneficiary of provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, was arrested at a police checkpoint and imprisoned in Ayutla de los Libres, charged by the Procuraduría General de Justicia (Attorney General) of Guerrero State.