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Perpetrator in the murder of Father Marcelo Perez Perez convicted

On 6 August, a judge in the Federal Criminal Justice Court in the Mexican state of Chiapas handed out a 20-year prison sentence against Edgar “M” for the aggravated homicide of human rights defender Marcelo Pérez Pérez. The investigations were carried out by the Office of the Attorney General of...

Publicado el 18 de septiembre de 2025 16:52

Joint declaration of international CSOs expressing concern about the criminalization of Father Marcelo

                  Criminalisation against Father Marcelo Perez Perez, Parish Priest of the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas The undersigned organisations express their deep concern at the attempted criminalisation of Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez, parish priest of the Diocese of San Cr...

Publicado el 20 de julio de 2022 22:20

Yonny Ronay, a student sentenced to 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit

According to the lawyers of the Human Rights Center Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba), the trial against Yonny presents a series of irregularities, such as forgery of signatures, attribution of crimes unrelated to the accused and fabrication of testimonies by the prosecutor’s office in Chiapas...

Publicado el 24 de febrero de 2022 23:19

Joint Statement – Concern for Father Marcelo’s safety Parish priest at the municipality of Simojovel and human rights defender

Joint Statement Concern for the safety of Father Marcelo, Parish priest at the municipality of Simojovel and human rights defender, Chiapas, Mexico Father Marcelo is an acknowledged human rights defender that, in his role as parish at the municipality of Simojovel and Social Work Coordinator at ...

Publicado el 5 de agosto de 2021 18:46