Argentina: Further information: Fear for safety / death threats

Index Number: AMR 13/008/2001
Date Published: 20 March 2001
Categories: Americas, Argentina

Sixteen-year-old Martín González Zarate was shot dead by an unidentified gunman driving by in a vehicle in Buenos Aires province on 16 March. A policeman has reportedly been arrested in connection with the killing. His mother, Lidia Zarate, member of the Comisión de Familiares de Víctimas de Gatillo Fácil, Commission of Relatives of Victims of Police Shootings, has repeatedly been threatened and told to look after her other children.