The lawyer and defender of human rights, Antonio Lara Duque, was with us in the AD Interview. Lara Duque assured that the Amnesty Law has been significant in that it has been applied to minor crimes. Approximately three thousand people have been released for these crimes.
«In terms of our point of view, there are a lot of people in jail for minor crimes. Among them people from the indigenous sector.”
Where the Mexican institutions that participate in the granting of amnesty, is in high impact crimes.
«Of course they are accusations of kidnapping, homicide and extortion and what we have plated, those crimes hurt, they hurt the ear, of course they do; Of course they have to be punished when those crimes were committed and whoever committed them is not in dispute. The problem is when you put someone in jail accusing him of something he never committed, just to add figures, to justify a fight against crime and to claim social recognition, standing on a structurally discriminated person ».
Bring amnesty to the new governments
According to the activist, they will seek to include the issue of amnesty on the agendas of the gubernatorial candidates, with the purpose of recognizing it as a structural problem.
“First you have to recognize that there is a problem. If you don’t, it’s going to be very difficult for you to address it, you’re just not going to fix it.”
The debt of Human Rights Edomex
According to the lawyer, they have only achieved -approximately- eight amnesties for high-impact crimes Thanks to the State Human Rights Commission.
«There are seven or eight in a universe of 500-800 requested amnesties, we are really too far below the aspiration. Talk about little work, little commitment. We are in the position of the authorities, they are not wrong »
For this type of amnesty, the pronouncement of the Codhem is enough to assess and grant, as the case may be.
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