VIDEO: Activists have denounced the violent arrest of a colleague and a migrant in Mexico City

Human rights organizations denounced by video broadcast on social networks the violent arrest suffered by a militant and a Honduran migrant near the Palillo stadium of Magdalena Mixhuca.

The incident occurred today at 2:45 pm uniformed policemen from Mexico City approached a group of activists who work to claim the rights of travelers to the migrant caravan.

The pictures show how the officers greet the people present and they go to one of them with the intention of capturing him. Immediately, other activists intervened to prevent the arrest.

"Because?" some ask. "Where is the arrest warrant?" they reprimand others.

The resistance of the group triggered a confrontation that He highlighted police action that Fernando Valadez, of the collective against torture and impunity, described as "very violent and arbitrary".

"The Federal District Police is ending (at 2:45 pm on February 15) to BLOW and ARBITRATE ARBREDENTLY several people outside the Palillo Stadium of the Magdalena Mixhuca in Mexico City. […] The police acted very violently and arbitrarily and did not want to identify themselves " wrote in his Facebook account.

One of the moments of the video shows how an officer hit one of the militants in the face. In another video posted on Twitter, the police forced the two arrested into a police car from the Public Security Secretariat (SSC) in the capital.

In his statement on Facebook Fernando Valadez identified the detainees as Cristóbal Sánchez Sánchez, human rights defender and Denis Omar Contreras., member of the last Honduran caravan arrived in Mexico City.

He also reported that activists Andrea González and Andrea Margarita Nuñez Chaim were injured in the confrontation with the authorities, but were not arrested.

They demand to act on the subject

Human Rights Organizations such as the IBERO CDMX Migration Program (PRAMI) or the Mesoamerican Migration Movement they joined Fernando Valadez's request to release the prisoners.

Through their networks, they denounced the detention of migrants of the last Honduran caravan entered the country.