Mexico: Fear for safety / Death threat

Index Number: AMR 41/030/2009
Date Published: 11 June 2009
Categories: Mexico

Human rights activists, many of them Indigenous activists, from Guerrero State, Mexico, continue to be at high risk of attacks, in spite of orders by Inter American Court for Human Rights that they should be given protection by the Mexican authorities. Recently, lawyer Rommel Cain Chacan Pale who works for a local human rights organization received a telephone death threat.