Detention and fine



Esquizander Benítez was with other UNPACU’s activists in a meeting when the police knock down the door and arrested them all. They put him in a patrol car where he was hit and threatened. He was detained more than 4 hours in the Police Station and fined with 30 pesos. Esquizander had been threatened before with incarceration and death.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal security and integrity
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
Perpetrator
Police
Ministry of the Interior
Political police
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