Oaxaca: For crime of disappearance, officials will be investigated by the UN

After the forced disappearance of the lawyer and human rights defender, Sandra Domínguez Martínez, and her partner Alexander Hernández Hernández, the Committee against Forced Disappearance of the United Nations (UN) formally requested that it be investigated as such, not just as a disappearance and is considered to be officials of the current government of Oaxaca could be related, Therefore, it issued a series of recommendations to the Mexican State.

The organization asks to establish urgently requires a comprehensive strategy that includes an action plan and a schedule for the immediate searchand for the exhaustive and impartial investigation of the disappearances that takes into account the context of the occurrence of the events.

It was requested to ensure that said strategy meets the requirements of due diligence in each of the stages of the search process, including informality, immediacy and exhaustiveness of the investigation, and guarantee complete independence.

In addition, it asks to ensure that the adopted strategy explores all the investigative hypotheses existing in the case, including the possibility that the facts constitute a forced disappearance due to the alleged involvement of agents of the Oaxaca government.

It must be ensured that the adapted strategy determines the actions to be taken to search for and locate Sandra and Alexander, as well as identify the perpetrators in “view of all existing hypotheses in an integrated, efficient and coordinated manner, with the necessary material resources and adequately trained personnel to locate missing persons”.

It also requests that the work of

be taken into account within the investigations and, in particular, the elements related to the complaints that were presented and that involve officials of the current government of Oaxaca.

They expand search

11 days after the disappearance of Sandra and Alexanderthe State Commission for the Search of Missing Persons for the State of Oaxaca (Cebpeo), reported that The investigation was expanded to the central region of the entity.

The head of the organization, Michel Julián López, reported that in order to find the whereabouts of both people, the actions They spread to the Central Valleys regionspecifically in the municipality of San Pedro Ixtlahuacawhere the victims also lived, to “generate new lines of research.”

He assured the National Commission for the Search of Missing Persons Mexico, the Coordination for the Attention of Human Rights (CADH) and the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca, work together and the collaboration of the 31 local search commissions was finalized.

Julián López announced that due to the disappearance of the activist There are investigation folders located in both Oaxaca and Veracruz, and he confirmed that the intervention of the State Commission of this neighboring entity has been requested.

Family, friends and social organizations called to protest this Wednesday in the capital city, to demand that the authorities present the defender and her husband alive.

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