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Amnesty International on Tortures and Arbitrary Detentions

Amnesty International announced Monday that incidents of torture and arbitrary detentions increased by over 600 percent in Mexico between 2010 and 2013.

During the presentation, “Surviving death; Torture of women by police and armed forces in Mexico,” regional investigator for Amnesty International Madeleine Penman, said that the statistics on torture in Mexico are chilling and unbelievable.