Main cases of harassment.

• On November 20, 2005 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Gustavo Jimenez Perez, member of Alianza Civica in Chiapas, was attacked at his residence by six persons dressed in black and armed with knives.   They struck him a number of times while also threatening to kill him. He suffered serious injuries. Jimenez Perez shares a residence with Gabriel Ramirez Perez, also a member of Alianza Civica, an organization that seeks to promote the participation of citizens.  Although the attackers took some objects, they left others that were of greater value including cash, making it appear that it was not common delinquency.

• On December 5, 2005 four members of the Center of Latin American Investigation and Action (CIAM), denounced having been detained in an illegal manner and treated in a menacing form for approximately 45 minutes in a temporary check point operated by mixed agents for transit, migration, and public security (BOM).  The incident happened in the Highlands at the crossroads of the highway between Chamula and Zinacantan.
• In the months of November and December on different dates, Maria Georgina Bocanegra, formerly a collaborator with Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, reported damages to her car that happened in strange manners and without explanation.  At the beginning of November a door was forced open, on November 15 the window on the left side was broken, on December 6 the mirror on the left side was removed and on December 7, the tire caps were stolen.
• On three occasions between November and January the book store, El Mono de Papel, suffered robbery attempts and in the last incident one of the store’s workers was struck several times.
• On December 15, 2005 Miguél Angel García Aguirre, coordinator of the Woods of the People of the South East (MPS), and Silvia Vasquez Díaz founder of MPS and member of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center, denounced that at 9:30 p.m. that evening, two unknown persons knocked on the door of their neighbors´ house and strived to obtain information about the daily life of Silvia. They then asked to rent the patio of their house for a night in order to wait for Silvia.  Receiving a refusal to this petition, the persons left. On the morning of December 21, it was discovered that the back windshield on the vehicle owned by Silvia and Miguel parked in front of their house was shattered.
• On January 21, 2006 three persons entered the Laundromat owned by Marisa Kramsky, social activist in San Cristóbal de las Casas.  These persons upon soliciting the delivery of their clothes without even looking at them began complaining that they were poorly washed. They threatened her as well as attempted to hit her, and ordered one of the perpetrators to fetch a pistol from their car.  When Marisa Kramsky took out her cellular phone in order to ask for help, the men left.
• On February 2, Mario M. Ruiz, collaborator of the Commission to Support Community Reconciliation and Unity (CORECO), was harassed by unknown persons who followed him in a black van and then threatened him crudely requesting that he leave his activities
• On February 9, at four a.m., Marina Pages was awakened by the doorbell to the house/office of SIPAZ (International Service for Peace). Upon rising she recognized that they were playing loudly the Zapatista Anthem from a gray van parked in front.    After a short time, the van proceeded to the residence of another member of SIPAZ.  Again, someone knocked on the door several times, while another person within the van played the Zapatista Anthem.
• On February 11, the HSBC Bank of Mexico, closed two contracts of persons (“due to being convenient for its interests”) that work in Enlace Civil AC and that receive national and international deposits to support productive projects, of education, and of health in Indigenous Zapatista Communities.
• On February 14, the penal proceedings 100/2004 were reactivated with an order to arrest Mario Alvarez Rodriguez, leader of the Central Unity of Workers (CUT) for the crime of taking land - an offense of which he had been absolved by a judge of the First Instance.  They also denounced the harassment and constant observation of their offices in Palenque.
• On February 24, Damaso Villanueva Ramirez, member of the Civic Committee for Popular Defense (COCIDEP) was detained in San Cristóbal de las Casas by municipal police who took him to the Center for Social Readaptation No. 5 in San Cristóbal.  The lawsuit against him was brought by the Pegaso Telephone Company, which accused him of destroying one of the cellular telephone bases on October 26, 2004 to a value of $2,340,000 Mexican pesos.  These deeds occurred on the same day that Damaso was in a meeting at the Municipal Palace in San Cristóbal.  On March 2 Damaso was liberated due to the judge considered there was not sufficient proof.
• On February 26, Ernesto Ledesma, Director of the Center for Political Analysis and Economic and Social Investigation (CAPISE) on arriving at his residence found the lock on the front door broken and that it had been forced open.  Inside he found that family pictures had been moved and they had been placed on top of his bed.  There was nothing robbed, which refuted the possibility of vandalism.
• On March 14, between 9:00-11:00AM, unknown persons entered the house of David Méndez, a defender for the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center, and his wife, Norma Medina, the director of Cáritas of San Cristóbal AC. These individuals destroyed the lock and the entrance to the house.  They rummaged through the personal belongings of David, Norma, and their young children and left the items all over the beds.  They only took a laptop computer leaving behind other valuable items. The family presented a formal complaint to the Subfiscal Reginal office in Zona Altos.
• On May 20, the home of two members of Melel Xojolabal (a civil organization working in the defense of street children's rights) was broken into. The trespassers searched all their documents and messed them up, moved a laptop computer, copied the files and stole a backpack, a television and a DVD player. They also left a piece of paper with a muddied boot track on it, next to burning candles. Melel Xojolabal published a communiqué, saying that the action had the features of a military break-in.
• On July 17, Manuel Gómez Hernández (Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center) received a death threat via a telephone call from a person who said he was a municipal authority of the town of Zinacantán.
• On August 5, unidentified persons broke the window of a Dodge Stratus belonging to a member of CIEPAC. They did not steal anything, not even the radio clearly in sight.
• On October 7, the front window of the Nissan Tsuru belonging to Mariel Cámeras (lawyer of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center) was broken using a rock. The rear view mirrors were stolen, although there was nothing missing inside the vehicle.
• On October 22, the office of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center was broken into by unidentified persons.
• On November 1, a group of human rights defenders and observers from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center were video-taped by three ocupants of a grey Ford Ranger van (license plates Chiapas CY-02-834). The van followed them for a long distance. This incident was made public on November 2.
• On November 4, members of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center detected two intruders in a workshop organized by the social organization Las Abejas that was being held in the Center. Separately confronted, both said their name was José Antonio López Hernández, although they had registered for the meeting as Edgar Eduardo Ruiz and José Alfonso López Hernández. They were both asked to leave. Later, another person turned up, who said his name was Jerónimo Luna Sánchez, who had been seen circling around  the Center some days earlier.
• On November 8, unidentified persons inside a white Ford pick up van (license plates Chiapas CX-95-437) video-recorded the entrance, façade and upper floor of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center.
• In December the OPDDIC (Organisation for the Defense of Indigenous and Peasant Rights) and “Fundación Lacandona, A.C.” published a document called “El Rostro de La Comunidad Lacandona”, in which they defame and threaten several civil organizations, including the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center and Miguel Ángel García Aguirre, from Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste (MPS).
• On December 31, at 9:00 am, a man with the appearance of a police officer was found trying to break into the office of CIEPAC. The doors have two locks: apparently he had the right key to open the first one. He was struggling to open the second one when he was found. He was accompanied by another person inside a red Volkswagen sedan parked next to the door.
• On February 24, 2007, at 1:30 am, several members of CIEPAC after leaving the home of another member and were getting into their cars, were confronted by six persons in uniforms (two of them masked)  holding high powered weapons on board of patrol PS-344. While they were asking two of the CIEPAC members to show their ID, the other CIEPAC member was aggressively approached   and requested to face the vehicle in order to be searched.
• On February 26, 2007, between 9:20 and 9:30 am, a note written in a piece of paper was thrown over the door of CIEPAC. It was folded in a strange way (similar to a fan). It said: “Enjoy your last day. We'll kill you I'm looking for you and I've found you” (sic).