62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
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MEXICO
Resolution of the
Midyear Meeting
Quito, Ecuador
WHEREAS
on December 16, journalist and social activist Lydia Camacho was arrested in
the city of Cancún, Quintana Roo, and transferred to the city of Puebla,
in the midst of irregularities and excesses that the journalist, who is also
an author, has denounced
WHEREAS
her detention was a result of a trial for libel and slander initiated by businessman
Kamel Nacif, who in subsequently published tape recordings left evidence of
an agreement with Puebla governor, Mario Marín, the procurator Blanca
Laura Villeda, and the judge Rosa Celia Pérez González, to arrest
and cause harm to Cacho
WHEREAS
the journalist faced a trial for libel only in Quintana Roo and that on March
13 filed criminal charges with the federal Attorney General´s office against
the governor, the procurator and the judge for threats, bribery, attempted rape
and traffic of influences
WHEREAS
the Mexican Supreme Court will resolve in the next few days if it will create
a special commission to investigate the possible violation of the individual
guarantees of Lydia Cacho, who since last year has been threatened with death
after she wrote a book denouncing a child sex trafficking ring
THE MIDYEAR MEETING OF THE
IAPA RESOLVES
to ask the Attorney General
of the Republic to thoroughly investigate in an impartial manner the possible
crimes involving the governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, the procurator
Blanca Laura Villeda and the judge Rosa Celia Pérez González
to ask the judicial power
in Quintana Roo to continue the course of the trial of Lydia Camacho on charges
of libel in an impartial fashion.
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