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After the news that the Senate approved the Amnesty Law, promoted by the current President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). At least 400 inmates see the opportunity to be released under the terms of said law.
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Those who will have a chance to get out are those prisoners who are over 65 years old and have completed at least 70% of their sentence in Federal Centers for Social Readaptation in the countryJulio Scherer, legal adviser to the Presidency, declared to Eleven News. However, it is analyzed that this benefit can be extended to the prison population that is over 60 years oldIn other words, more than 2,600 prisoners may be canidates.
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However, he detailed that the authorities seek that those who have committed “blood or health crimes” cannot be candidates for pre-liberation. He noted that beyond criticism “you have to take into account the life of the person and you have to try to preserve that and health, of course.”
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He said that the Amnesty Law will serve for other types of cases such as those related to “indigenous people, with people who could not defend themselves, that in fact some of their human rights were violated in some way, due to ignorance, disability, etc., or that they have already reached their age, age ”.
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Upon approval, it was announced and confirmed that the crimes that may be forgiven by the rule will be: abortion, crimes against health, for possession and transportation of narcotics in the case of people in a vulnerable state; those committed by members of indigenous peoples who have not been guaranteed due process; condemned for simple robbery without violence and non-recidivism and for political prisoners convicted of sedition, with the exception of terrorism. Three conditions must also be satisfied: one condemned by simple robbery without violence and non-recidivism and for political prisoners convicted of sedition, with the exception of terrorism.
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Other conditions that must be satisfied will be: a final judgment that the accused has is the first; that no crime of deprivation of life, kidnapping or crimes against personal integrity has been committed, and no firearms have been used or used.
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Also, Scherer, questioned whether former Governor Mario Villanueva Madrid, linked to the drug trafficking cartel Amado Carrillo Fuentes, better known as “El Señor de los Cielos”, would be a candidate for this benefit. The official said that most likely the now inmate has sufficient pre-release requirements, but did not confirm that it would come out.
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The law was approved with 68 votes in favor, 14 against and two abstinences of the members of the Senate. Later the document was sent to the federal executive so that he can sign, publish and put into effect the Amnesty.
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The president asked the Upper House to expedite deliberation on this rule with the goal of depressurizing prisons because, as reported by the organization Documenta, Analysis and Action for Social Justice, Mexican prisons do not have the capacity to maintain preventive measures established by the Ministry of Health to face the pandemic, including healthy distance.
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The organization reported that around 200 thousand 936 people deprived of their liberty are in dangerMany of them are part of groups considered vulnerable to the coronavirus.
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Regarding the approval of the Amnesty Law, the coordinator of the senators of the National Regeneration Movement party (Morena), Ricardo Monreal, stated that “although it is a historic step, its approval is also an act of humanity in the face of the coronavirus crisis ”.
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