At least two minors were sexually assaulted by police officers after the protests in León, Guanajuato, precisely because of the case of a young woman who reported being a victim of sexual violence on August 14, by municipal agents.
One of the 22 young women detained after participating in the demonstration – all of them were released at dawn, without charges, according to Amnesty International Mexico -, She said that when they put her on the patrol someone lifted her skirt and “put his hand in me.”
The 17-year-old showed off her socks and ripped clothes.
She said that they hit her on the head and handcuffed her. “Inside the patrol … (an agent) pulled my hair all the way, punched me in the nose, on the head,” the young woman denounced, as heard in a recording broadcast by the Children’s Rights Network .
Given the pain she felt, when the young woman asked if she had blood on her face, the agent told her “That she was not crying, that if she had the balls to show me that she had them to receive the blows.”
17-year-old teenager recounts the arbitrary detention, torture and sexual violence of which he was a victim by the municipal police of León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Within the framework of the protests this Saturday, August 22
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– Child Rights (@derechoinfancia) August 23, 2020
Marcela Villalobos, president of Amnesty International Mexico, indicated that they had contact with another minor who also suffered aggression from the police, beatings and touching.
“There are several who claim that they were attacked, in addition to beatings, there was sexual assault on the part of the police. One of them, a minor, spent the night in the hospital, at the Maternal Infant in León “, Villalobos told Political Animal.
The young woman remained in the hospital until 2 in the afternoon this Sunday, they were going to take a plate, waiting for the medical discharge.
This demonstration was precisely aimed at making visible and demanding justice for a young woman sexually assaulted by the police (thread) ????
– Amnesty Int. Mexico (@AIMexico) August 23, 2020
“It is a very serious situation, precisely because not only were the arbitrary arrests, there were also attacks on journalists who were documenting the demonstration, there were beatings, threats, a journalist was beaten in the stomach, this criminalization of the protest is extremely serious”, Villalobos said, demanding as president of Amnesty that there be an investigation of this case of police abuse and justice be done.
Here you see how cops from @Security_Leon they kick a woman to the ground. Then you see a truck full of colleagues who only demanded #JusticiaParaEvelyn.
Guanajuato hates women. Attack mothers who are looking for their children and women who ask for justice. pic.twitter.com/M9GwMrlo0Y
– Marcela Villalobos (@MarceVillalobs) August 23, 2020
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