2023-06-09 13:35:00
Despite these conditions, which considers the Amnesty Law to pardon people in prison, Virginia waited two years to be released. His case is that of thousands, because three years following the publication of this legislation, only 249 people have been released by amnesty, according to the head of the Citizen Security Secretariat, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, in the morning conference on May 2 of 2023.
Experts in the field consider that the slow application of the law is the result of the opacity with which it operates and the challenges it faces to become a real instrument of justice and reparation in cases of human rights violations.
A paper law?
The Amnesty Law entered into force in 2020. It is an instrument that grants “forgiveness” to people in prison who belong to vulnerable groups, such as indigenous people, women and young people without educational or employment opportunities; victims of discrimination, forced by organized crime or in poverty.
Since then, the Amnesty Commission, the body in charge of analyzing and approving amnesty requests, has received around 3,752 requests, of which 37% “are notoriously inadmissible,” the agency reports.
43% of the applications that are considered appropriate are analyzed by the commission. However, according to official data, one in five is pending. As of May 29 of this year, 1,613 amnesty cases have been reviewed, 609 requests are still pending, and 86 have been concluded or transferred to other areas of the Justice System Support Unit.
In addition, the rejection rate is large: 58% of amnesty requests have been denied without making the criteria for that decision transparent, according to data from the report. Advocacy in public policies to improve access to justice for indigenous people in amnesty processes.
1686320766
#Amnesty #law #Mexico #forgets #indigenous #people
