San Cristóbal de las Casas, State of Chiapas, Mexico June 2004, 4th SIPAZ (International Service for Peace) continues to be alarmed and concerned by the wave of harassment and threats being experienced by the fellow students of Noel Pável González, a member of both the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM) and the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), who was found hanged in Mexico City on April 24th of this year. As you will have been informed by our last ‘Urgent Action’, some students have received threats by email because of their participation in projects connected with the autonomous Zapatista communities in Chiapas, México. The last threat, dated Saturday the 22nd of May, arrived in the email account of the coordination of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. It said the following:
In the sender address field of the mail, there again appeared a reference to “Yunque”, a recognised ultra rightwing group. We fear for the physical and psychological integrity of Rodrigo Yerda, the UNAM student that is mentioned in this last mail, as well as for that of his fellow students whose names have appeared in the other threats. There is still no news of any preventive measures being carried out by the appropriate authorities in response to the threats. We consider it of extreme concern that such criminal acts are being carried out against people showing solidarity with the Zapatista movement in a peaceful and civic-minded way. We urge international civil society to send letters and emails to the Mexican Federal and State authorities, demanding:
President of the Republic
Procuduría General de la República
(PGR)
Gobierno del Distrito Federal
Procuraduría General de Justicia del
Distrito Federal (PGJDF)
General Director of Social Communication: Héctor
Ramos Aguilar
Presidente de la Comisión Nacional de
Derechos Humanos
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