Mexico: Investigate Raid on Juarez Human Rights Organization – Passion of the Present

Mexican federal prosecutors should immediately open a thorough and impartial investigation into the raid by federal police on the office of the human rights organization Centro de Derechos Humanos Paso del Norte in Ciudad Juarez. Approximately 20 federal police officers broke into the office at about 8:30 p.m. on June 5, 2011, searched files, broke windows and damaged other parts of the office.

(New York) – Mexican federal prosecutors should immediately open a thorough and impartial investigation into the raid by federal police on the office of the human rights organization Centro de Derechos Humanos Paso del Norte in Ciudad Juarez, Human Rights Watch said. Approximately 20 federal police officers broke into the office at about 8:30 p.m.