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REPORT ON THE DIGNA
OCHOA MURDER INVESTIGATION
INDEX
I. MANDATE
OF LAWYERS RIGHTS WATCH CANADA & THE BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
OF ENGLAND AND WALES
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights Order
- Criticisms of the Investigation
II. SIGNIFICANCE
OF OCHOA CASE
- Failure of national and international law enforcement and implementation
III. BACKGROUND
- Miguel Agustin de Juarez, Centro de Derechos Humanos (PRODH)
- Murder and torture by members of Mexico's military
- Ochoa's cases:
Zapatista insurgency
Ecologists Teodoro Cabrera and Rodolfo Montiel
Revolution Army of the Insurgent People ERPI
University students and Banamex
- Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN)
- Accounts of the crime scene
- Threats to Ms Ochoa's colleagues
III. 1
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CASE #12.229:
- American Convention on Human Rights, Article 1.1
- Dr. Díaz's recommendations
IV. INTERNATIONAL
LAW
- Introduction to guarantees of the Organization of American States
and the United Nations.
IV.1 THE
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
- American Convention on Human Rights resolutions
IV.2 UNITED
NATIONS
- Mexico's obligations to the UN
- Mexico's Constitution
- International instruments of obligation:
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
The Basic Principles on the Roles of Lawyers
V. HUMAN
RIGHTS REPORTS
- Introduction to United Nations Special Rapporteurs and other
groups
V. 1 REPORT
OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGES AND LAWYERS
- Dato' Param Cumaraswamy's "Report on the mission to Mexico"
V. 2 UN
COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS REPORT
- Hina Jilani's "Promotion and Protection of Human Rights:
Human Rights Defenders Report"
V.3 LAWYERS
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS (LCHR)
V.4 AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL
- March 13, 2002 News Release
V.5 ON
THE FRONT LINE
V.6 GLOBAL
EXCHANGE
- And Mexico Solidarity Network Delegation report
VI THE INVESTIGATION
VI.1 THEORIES
- The execution as reprisal
- Ruben Figueroa Alcocer and Rogaciano Alba Alvarez
- Rudolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera
- Local 'caciques"
- Cases of lawyer Pilar Noriega
- Renato Sales and Suicide
VI.2 IN
CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION
- Attorney General of Mexico City Bernardo Batíz
- Federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha
- Deputy Attorney General Renato Sales Herida
- Margarita Guerra Tejada of the Superior Tribunal of Justice
of Mexico City
VII LRWC/BHRC
INVESTIGATION AND INTERVIEWS
- Problems with the investigation
Lack of cooperation from the military
Promotion of suicide theory
Inadequate investigation of hypotheses
Failure to investigate state agents
Lack of technical ability of investigators
Intimidation of witnesses and interference
Past murder attempts remain uninvestigated
Contamination of evidence
VII.1 CONCLUSIONS
VII.2 RECOMMENDATIONS
ENDNOTES
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