Justice and Human Rights Mexico Project #54892

Support families fighting torture in Mexico

by Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, A.C. (Frayba)

Support families fighting torture in Mexico

Project Report | Oct 6, 2025
Stop Torture in Mexico

By Nora Gonzalez | Fundraising area

Encuentro Familias Unidas contra la Tortura

Dear friend:

In Chiapas, torture continues to be a systematic practice used by the State to fabricate guilt, repress, and punish especially targeting Indigenous peoples and peasant families. Through arbitrary detentions, physical and psychological violence, intimidation, threats, and the simulation of judicial processes, the justice system perpetuates pain and impunity.

Within the framework of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we gathered with members of the organization Families United Against Torture and in Defense of Human Rights in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to reaffirm our commitment to sustain the collective struggle for justice and truth in the face of a State that has normalized impunity and violence against Indigenous people in Chiapas.

Cases such as those of Rigoberto Vázquez Méndez, the brothers Freddy and Jeison Martínez Jiménez, Yonny Ronay Chacón González, Pedro Pérez Jiménez, Versaín Velasco García, Jorge López Montoya, and Francisco Espinosa Hidalgo show that in Chiapas, torture and crimes against humanity are used as systemic tools to control, punish, degrade, and silence. In response, resistance has names and faces: mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, friends, and entire communities who refuse to let injustice become oblivion.

They are also the victims who have survived horror and now raise their voices to demand reparation, justice, and truth. We invite all individuals, communities, collectives, and organizations to join this urgent and vital cause. We cannot and must not remain silent. We believe in the power of the collective. Torture is a crime of the State. Impunity must not be the norm. Memory is our resistance, solidarity is our strength.

¡Ya BASTA!

¡ALTO A LA TORTURA!

#FamiliasUnidas

#LibertadYonny

#Libertad Freddy

#LibertadJeison

#JusticiaRigoberto

#LibertadyJusticia

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