Mexico

Front Line is concerned following reports of an attempted assassination and death threats against members of the non-governmental Consejo para la Ley y los Derechos Humanos – CLDH (Law and Human Rights Council) and in particular Mr Fernando Ruiz Canales, chairman of the organisation, Mr Mario Alberto Ramírez Hurtado and Mr Isaac Olmedo García. 

Front Line is deeply saddened following reports that the bodies of human rights defenders Manuel Ponce Rosas and Raúl Lucas Lucía were discovered on 20 February 2009 with visible signs of torture and in an advanced state of decomposition. Manuel Ponce Rosas and Raúl Lucas Lucía were Secretary and President respectively of the Organisation for the Future of the Mixteco People (OFPM), an organisation which is derived from the Organización Independiente de Pueblos Mixtecos y Tlapanecos – OIPMT (Independent Organisation of Mixteco and Tlapaneco Peoples). 

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of the alleged enforced disappearance of human rights defenders, Mr Manuel Ponce Rosas and Mr Raúl Lucas Lucía, on 13 February 2009. Manuel Ponce Rosas and Raúl Lucas Lucía are Secretary and President respectively of the Organisation for the Future of the Mixteco People (OFPM), an organisation which is derived from the Organización Independiente de Pueblos Mixtecos y Tlapanecos – OIPMT (Independent Organisation of Mixteco and Tlapaneco Peoples). 

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of the continued detention of Natalio Ortega Cruz, Romualdo Santiago Enedina, Raúl Hernández Abundio, Orlando Manzanarez Lorenzo and Manuel Cruz Victoriano, all of whom are members of the Organización del Pueblo Indígena Me'phaa (Organisation of the Me'phaa Indigenous People, OPIM). They were arrested on 18 April 2008 and detained in Ayutla, in the State of Guerrero, and are among a group of fifteen OPIM members whose arrests had been ordered on 11 April 2008. The remaining ten members of the OPIM are reportedly at risk of arrest at any time. Since 2002, the OPIM has worked in the defence of indigenous rights in the communities of Ayutla de los Libres and Acatepec, Costa Montaña de Guerrero. 

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of the killing of human rights defender Ricardo Murillo Monge, on 6 September 2007, in Culiacán city, Sinaloa. Ricardo Murillo Monge, along with his sister, founded the Frente Cívico Sinaloense (Sinaloa Civic Front), a non-governmental organisation which works for the promotion of community education in defending and promoting human rights. The organisation was also involved in denouncing cases of torture and human rights abuses allegedly carried out by the police and military.