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Seattle Globalist: “UN rules Nestora Salgado illegally detained in Mexico”
Fueled by a recent United Nations human rights panel decision, supporters of Nestora Salgado, the Renton woman jailed in Mexico after organizing a community police force, are pressing members of Congress and other U.S. officials to take action on Salgado’s case.
Last week, Salgado’s lawyers at Seattle University’s Human Rights Clinic learned that the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that her imprisonment is illegal.
While the ruling isn’t binding, according to a story in the Associated Press, hersupporters said in a press conference on Monday night that they hoped it would build support for Salgado from United States officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, to pressure Mexico to release the naturalized U.S. citizen.
KUOW: “Grandma Imprisoned In Mexico Could Get Help From Seattle”
The case of a Renton woman who is jailed in Mexico is getting new attention.
Nestora Salgado was arrested 30 months ago, detained because of her involvement in a community-based police force in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
The Seattle City Council will consider a resolution Tuesday that asks the federal government to keep pressuring Mexican leaders to free her.
That’s after similar efforts by other governments and a ruling from a United Nations panel two weeks ago that said Salgado should be released immediately.
El Diario: ONU exige a México liberar a Nestora Salgado; detención fue ilegal
Fue detenida por el Ejército y posteriormente incomunicada sin haber sido presentada en ningún momento ante un juez que determinara la legalidad de su detención, destaca el informe
Mural exige libertad para Mumia y Nestora
The Guardian: UN panel finds Mexico’s arrest of organizer Nestora Salgado illegal
A United Nations panel has ruled that Mexico’s 2013 arrest and continuing detention of a community police leader was illegal, raising hopes among her supporters she could be freed.
Nestora Salgado is a Seattle-area resident who returned to her native Mexico and led a vigilante-style – but legal – community police force, which mounted patrols to protect residents from cartel operatives.
A dual US-Mexico citizen, Salgado was arrested in August 2013 after people detained by her group alleged they had been kidnapped. A federal judge cleared her of those charges, but a related state case has kept her imprisoned.
Fotografías de una demostración de Los Ángeles
CNN: “Nestora Salgado: Estoy detenida porque no acepté dinero del gobierno”
Nestora Salgado, excoordinadora de la Policía Comunitaria en Olinalá, estado de Guerrero, México, dijo enAristegui que hoy en día está detenida porque no aceptó dinero del gobierno.
Salgado está recluida en el Centro Femenil de Readaptación Social de Tepepan, en donde habló con Aristegui. Fue detenida el 21 de agosto de 2013 por la Marina y el Ejército y acusada de secuestro. Además enfrenta cargos por un homicidio.
Holiday Collection for Nestora Salgado and the Jailed Community Police
The U.S. Campaign to Free Nestora Salgado has launched a Holiday Collection to provide much needed material support to Nestora Salgado and eight Guerrero community police, including Arturo Campos and Gonzalo Molina— all jailed for defending indigenous communities in Guerrero, Mexico.
The good news in 2015 was the transfer of Nestora and the community police last May from high security prisons to jails with less repressive conditions and access to their families, attorneys and the press as a result Nestora’s hunger strike. This brought attention to Nestora’s case and boosted the growing international campaign calling for the freedom of all political prisoners in Mexico.
The bad news is that Nestora and the community police leaders remain imprisoned under onerous conditions.
Nestora’s family has to pay for her personal care items, telephone calls, medicine, nutritious food and cleaning supplies for her prison hospital room. Recently she had a tumor removed from her face and was forced to pay for the pathology report.
The indigenous community police officers all have wives and children who live in conditions of dire poverty.
How you can help
Join the U.S. Campaign to Free Nestora Salgado in supporting this Holiday Collection effort.
We are asking you to help in two ways:
- Contribute money for the purchase of telephone cards so Nestora can continue to give phone interviews and publicize her plight beyond the prison walls of the Centro Feminil de Readaptación Social in Tepepan, a suburb of Mexico City.
Make a donation to the Freedom for Nestora Fund here online by pushing this button or following this link to freenestora.org.
Or make out a check to RW/Nestora Fund and mail it to Freedom for Nestora Fund, 5018 Rainier Ave. So, Seattle, WA 98118.
Send money to buy yarn. The community police need yarn to make handicraft items they can sell to produce income for the wives and children who struggle to make ends meet.
To direct your gift to this end, earmark your check for “yarn donation” and send it to the address above.
Nestora, Arturo, Gonzalo and the other community police have bravely defended their people and persevered under very difficult conditions. They stand on the front lines in the fight for indigenous and social rights. They deserve our support.
Freedom for Political Prisoners Committee 