Mexico: Fear for safety/death threats/torture

Index Number: AMR 41/060/2007
Date Published: 30 October 2007
Categories: Americas, Mexico

On 22 October 2007, Mexican citizen and former soldier Geovanni Alcaraz Vielman, aged 25, was deported as an illegal immigrant from USA back to Mexico. According to his testimony, he has been beaten and he and his family have been threatened by officers of the Mexican Military Judicial Police (Policía Judicial Federal Militar). Amnesty International believes that the lives of Geovanni Alcaraz Vielman and his family may be in danger.