Des femmes innocentes torturées au Mexique pour augmenter le nombre d'arrestations, selon un rapport

Une étude démontre que des femmes ont été arrêtées illégalement et violées pour justifier la guerre aux drogues, et que seulement une poignée de coupables parmi les responsables de l’application des lois ont été jugés. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Nina Lakhani - The Guardian

Tailyn Wang was two months pregnant when federal police officers broke into her house in Mexico City, ripped off her nightgown and threw her to the ground. They groped her breasts while punching and kicking her in front of her terrified children, before taking her blindfolded to a police base – without an arrest warrant.

The officers continued to physically and sexually abuse her until she miscarried in the attorney general’s office in Mexico City. Instead of receiving medical attention, she was transferred, still bleeding, to a prison hundreds of miles away. Here, several days after the illegal arrest, Wang was told she was accused of kidnap and organised crime.

More than two years later, Wang, a 35-year-old Peruvian cook, remains in prison awaiting trial, struggling with severe pain in her jaw, shoulders and back. Her mother has been granted a humanitarian visa in Mexico to care for her three traumatized children, now aged seven, 10 and 17.

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