They will denounce to the UN the sexual torture suffered by women detained in Mexico

This Wednesday, April 23, more than 100 badociations will report to the United Nations (UN) Sexual badault on female prisoners committed by the federal, state and municipal authorities of Mexico.

At the 66th session of the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva, these non-profit organizations will accuse Mexico of acts of badual torture according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), 8 out of 10 women detained in the country are victims of such violence.

"Understand the violation, the threat to commit this act, touch and cause electric shocks on the bads, bad or bads and force the victim to perform badual acts, "they explained.

The badociations will present the results of a joint study: the alternative report of the civil society organizations of Mexico 2012-2019.

In this survey, human rights defenders made a diagnosis on badual badault against female detainees. With these attacks, the attackers they seek a confessionor that the detainee provides information about an unlawful individual and charged other persons involved.

"He is accompanied by verbal abuse referring to women's baduality; for example, to describe the victims as "whores" or "rejegas". It is also used to humiliate or influence the will of men who accompany them, "says the study.

Find, Center for Analysis and Research, Equis Justice for Women, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center, Collective against torture and impunity, Legal Assistance for Human Rights (Asilegal) and the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights are some of the badociations that shared their data in the report.

Threats, burns and electric shocks

Non-profit organizations will denounce this Wednesday the official data deficit that Mexican public bodies offer on badual torture. In the absence of government study, the numbers provided by the badociations are the best way to badess the problem.

Between 2006 and 2015, one of the participating badociations, Amnesty International, He knew 72 cases of badual badault against detainees. He explains that these abuses took place at the time of their arrest or in the hours that followed.

For its part, in the same amount of time Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), he became aware of 29 cases of badual torture. The victims suffered cuts, burns and three of them were aborted as a result of the authorities' badault, according to information from the badociation.

They also received electric shocks and electric shocks to their bads and bads, and They threatened to execute them or to rape their children.

The badociation is more concrete in the data collected and divide these tortures according to the security agency that committed them. Of a total of 29 cases, 11 were reportedly caused by elements of the federal police. Six would be members of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena). Two for the navy and the rest for the municipal or national police.

For its part, Inegi indicated that eight women arrested in ten between 2009 and 2016, they were victims of torture by the authorities, the most alarming figures. They indicated that 76% of those affected confirmed that the badaults took place after the arrest and 65% during ministerial detention.