A/HRC/19/58
Standard procedure
402. The Working Group transmitted 45 newly-reported cases to the Government. The
majority of these cases occurred in 2009, in Coahuila. 12
Urgent Appeals
403. The Working Group transmitted two communications under its urgent appeal
procedure to the Government.
404. The first communication was transmitted on 19 January 2011, jointly with three other
special procedures mechanisms, concerning the alleged disappearance of a group of
migrants and the subsequent harassment and threats against Father Solalinde and his
collaborators in ―Albergue de Migrantes hermanos en el Camino de la Esperanza,‖ a
shelter for migrants in Oaxaca.
405. On 7 February 2011, the Government replied to this urgent appeal and reported that the
train in which the migrants were travelling was stopped by an operation of the National
Institute of Migration (INM), which in coordination with the Federal Police and members
of the Mexican Army resulted in the detention of 92 persons. It was further reported that
thereafter, the train continued its journey and was boarded by other migrants who managed
to evade the operation. Later, the train was stopped because the track was obstructed with
timber and the driver heard shots in the back of the train, without verifying what was
happening. The Government provided information on the investigations underway as well
as on other measures taken with regard to these events, including the reinforcement of the
security for Father Solalinde and his shelter. In addition, it reported that the INM in
coordination with several Government agencies began, in April 2010, a series of meetings
in order to develop an Integral Strategy for the Combat of the Kidnapping of
Undocumented Migrants that travel through the country. Finally, it informed on the
guarantees to the effective protection of the human rights of the migrants who transit the
territory where the facts occurred.
406. The second communication was transmitted on 2 September 2011, jointly with another
special procedures mechanism, concerning the alleged detention and ill-treatment of a
minor by agents of the National Defence Secretariat (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional) on
25 July 2011. According to the source, the minor was at risk of being subjected to enforced
disappearance. Reportedly, he has been taken to the detention center (Centro Nacional de
Arraigo) and threatened to confess his alleged participation in an armed confrontation in
Nuevo Laredo. Reportedly, the circumstances of his case were similar to those related to
another minor who had been allegedly arrested, forced to pledge guilty for the charges
against him, and who had later disappeared.
407. On 3 September 2011, the source reported that the minor who had been the subject of
the urgent appeal had been released.
Prompt intervention
408. On 2 November 2011, the Working Group sent a prompt intervention letter to the
Government regarding the alleged acts of intimidation and threats against the Muñoz
family after they filed a criminal complaint at the Attorney General's Office regarding the
alleged disappearance of eight members of their family by agents of the Federal Police on
19 June 2011. On 27 September 2011, the Working Group had transmitted those eight cases
under its urgent action procedure (see par. 396).
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See annex V for the list of names of the newly-reported cases of disappeared persons.
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