Mexico: Lawyer at risk after partner killed

Index Number: AMR 41/017/2010
Date Published: 4 March 2010
Categories: Mexico

Lawyer Ernesto Rábago Martínez was shot and killed in his office in Chihuahua City, northern Mexico on 2 March 2010. He and his female partner, Estela Ángeles Mondragón, had previously been threatened and attacked because of their legal work for an Indigenous community involved in a land dispute. Estela Ángeles Mondragón and her daughter are in grave danger.