Raúl Hernández Abundió

Mexico: Ongoing detention of indigenous rights defender Mr Raúl Hernández Abundióposted on: 2009/03/27

Front Line welcomes the release from prison of indigenous rights defenders Messrs Natalio Ortega Cruz, Romualdo Santiago Enedina, Orlando Manzanarez Lorenzo, and Manuel Cruz Victoriano, on 19 March 2009. The aforementioned indigenous rights defenders make up four of the five members of the Organización del Pueblo Indígena Me'phaa – OPIM (Indigenous Me'phaa People's Organisation) who were the subject of a Front Line urgent appeal issued on 30 May 2008 after they had been arrested and detained on 18 April 2008. However, Front Line expresses concern that Mr Raúl Hernández Abundió, a fifth member of the OPIM who was detained at the same time as the other four, remains in detention.