News from Arizona regarding police violence in Mexico

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Tucson, Arizona Published: 11.25.2006
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U.N. report cites detention abuses
MEXICO CITY— A U.N. panel expressed concern Friday about police abuse in Mexico, particularly "the indiscriminate use of arbitrary detentions" against some protesters.
The report by the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited several police crackdowns on protests from 2004 to 2006 in which officers allegedly sexually abused female demonstrators and beat others.
There was no immediate comment from the government.
The report mentioned an anti-globalization protest in May 2004 in Guadalajara where police detained up to 60 protesters. It said abuses also had occurred in the southern state of Oaxaca. The report did not give any details on those allegations.

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The report also includes other places where exist concern about the police abuse. In days to come Calderon will probably take over the presidency, and he has already appointed the ex-governor of Jalisco,.. the one who brutally repressed anti-globalisation protestors as the new 'secretario de gobernacion' he will be in charge of the home office. So things look a bit disappointing not only for Oaxaca but for Mexico as a whole.