Mexico Police Tortured 5 Suspects: Report

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican human rights authorities say five men detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez were tortured by federal police to confess their roles in the crimes.

The National Human Rights Commission said Sunday the country must investigate six federal officers and a doctor who didn't report signs of severe beating.

Police had accused one man of being a lookout in a July 2010 car-bomb attack. They had also accused the five men of killing two police officers.

Police have dropped the accusations, but the men remain in jail on drugs and weapons charges.

Federal police said the men were members of the La Linea gang when they were arrested in August 2010 in the border city.

Comments

[Sheldon archer]

05:35 AM on 01/03/2012

Mexico does not torture.

[Pecaminoso]

06:33 PM on 11/27/2012

You're right! Mexico does not kill. Those who kill are their inhabitants', those in power, and I mean in power! Los Zatas, La Family, Los Felix Orellano, etc. etc. etc.

[inthedesert]

07:20 PM on 01/02/2012

You could not pay me enough to visit Mexico. Only a fool would venture into what is basically a terrorist insurrection. I think actually a week at the Kabul Hilton would be safer than one at the Acapulco Hyatt. LMAO.

[ThreeCrows]

05:49 PM on 01/02/2012

When you see the level of violence that's been inflicted on this country, does the end justify the means? The drug cartels have taken a page out of al-Qaeda and begun torturing and killing in that manner to induce the level of fear that has plagued that region of the globe. You can view some of the carnage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzWYKHmaFY

[Arturo Ramrez]

06:47 PM on 01/02/2012

The end doesn't justify the means because the means are an end in itself. If the police can't be held accountable it can get really tricky real fast, just think of how repressive regimes tend to justify themselves in the protection of law and order.

[ThreeCrows]

07:33 PM on 01/02/2012

Do you feel that the history of political corruption has led to this state of anarchy with the drug cartel and their pure rebuking of authority? I saw one report where even the churches have resigned themselves to administer to the drug soldiers not because they are currying them any favors but as a way of still trying to reach a few in the midst of these armies of foot soldiers. It seems like the most lucrative employers are the drug dealers but the toll it has taken on the citizens of Mexico has been horrendous. There has been wholesale slaughter of people with and without connections to drugs. What can you tell the families of the innocent victims that, for lack of a better term, was in the wrong place at the wrong time? Human rights should be equal on both sides but one side is a criminal empire with total disregard to the law and the land.

[freedom1947]

10:55 PM on 01/02/2012

You must be talking about our government. If the Repubs get their way.

[grod805]

03:09 PM on 01/02/2012

This makes me sick. Where are the human rights people when these cartel members killed 52 innocent people, mostly women, at a Casino last year? Sometimes these types of actions are needed. I've been against the death penalty but I'm reconsidering after everything that is going on in Mexico. I had not realize humans could be so evil.

[Fran Jaime]

04:38 PM on 01/02/2012

The Mexican Human Rights Comission was created to monitor government groups in order to avoid the use of torture. The cartels obviously don't play by the rules but the government must so! Why? Because if a confession is gotten through the use of torture, it is invalid. Under torture, a person will say anything! Even innocent people confess to things they have not done!

[grod805]

08:53 PM on 01/02/2012

Mexico needs to get tough on crime like the US. No one takes law enforcement in the US lightly. Police will kill you just because they "thought" you were reaching for a weapon inside your pocket. Does that happen in Mexico? No it doesn't. But it does happen in the US all the time and we have our murder rates going down year after year. Maybe it will detract people from murdering.

[methnkng]

03:39 PM on 01/03/2012

Hi. I see what you mean. The torture is reported but not the advances made by Mexicans with respect to Human Rights and no kudos for having the Human Rights Comission step in.

But be honest, when this sort of thing happens in America, it is the criticism that is reported, not the fact that the American justice system is doing a great job dealing with the problem. That is just the way things go.

Also, note how many posts point out how hypocritical we Americans are - we have our elected reps voting for torture with the Patriort Act.. and let us not forget the ghost torture camps and rendition etc. No one was held accountable for that at all. Personally, I think Bush/Cheney should be tried at the Hague for war crimes.

[inthedesert]

07:22 PM on 01/02/2012

MEXICO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS...but they sure know how to tell America what is so racist and wrong when we try to maintain our border. Talk about the ulitmate in hypocrisy. And BO still licks Calderon's butt.

[Arturo Ramrez]

01:41 PM on 01/03/2012

Yet the cops are being investigated...

[Cory111]

10:59 AM on 01/02/2012

Gee, the next thing you know they might start "Water boarding."

They should have started with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cases_of_police_brutality_in_the_United_States

Then added, “On a much lighter note five Mexicans were tortured…..”

[Dana S]

10:59 AM on 01/02/2012

With the insanity down there , I would do the same to get to the truth , problem is torture done right gets what ever they ask for .

[Arturo Ramrez]

06:48 PM on 01/02/2012

like "witches" denouncing other "witches"?

[freedom1947]

10:58 PM on 01/02/2012

Lets put you on the rack. What u been hiding and where is your dope? It's the american way?

[Sinister Minister]

10:27 AM on 01/02/2012

Interesting, there is a debate as to whether or not we should fund Planned Parenthood because they may give out information on abortions, but I don't hear any debate about the millions in funding for the Mexican Drug War.

The blood is also on the hands of the people that pay for this.

[MA2AW]

10:24 AM on 01/02/2012

Asking nicely, and saying pretty please doesn't work! A drill bit to the cheek does!

[Arturo Ramrez]

06:48 PM on 01/02/2012

It can also lead to false confessions just to avoid the pain, that's how the inquisition worked.

[freedom1947]

10:59 PM on 01/02/2012

Is that where america got its waterboarding techniques?

[nothingchanges]

10:23 AM on 01/02/2012

Depending on the outcome of the 2012 elections, "torture" will again become legal in America.

Then it won't even make the news.

How far this country has fallen................when I wonder will hit bottom and start turning around?

[grant06]

01:17 PM on 01/02/2012

It took the Marshal plan for Germany.

[hawaiianstile]

01:33 AM on 01/03/2012

lol torture is legal for america, you just have to invade someone else country first. and by the way, when it does hit the bottom, it isnt getting back up. lol dont kid yourself.

[littlemonster]

09:38 AM on 01/02/2012

...and now you'll see what it means that America can't say squat about the misconduct of other governments without sounding hypocritical. Way to undermine ourselves.

[TexasTreader]

09:32 AM on 01/02/2012

NOW, can we put a fence up?!

[grant06]

01:17 PM on 01/02/2012

No.

[Romano54]

02:42 PM on 01/02/2012

please?

[hawaiianstile]

01:36 AM on 01/03/2012

yeah, at least america has the common courtesy to invade someone elses country and torture their people. the nerve i swear.

[Boblop]

09:17 AM on 01/02/2012

Well Dah!! Who would have thought any torture so close to the U.S., who is against that kind of treatments??

[TexasBlueTick]

09:02 AM on 01/02/2012

The suspects were sacrificial lambs, no doubt innocent poverty stricken men who were set-up, then murdered by the corrupt Federales, to give the nation of Mexico a false impression that the police are tough on crime. The emasculated Federales would NEVER bite the hand of the Drug Lord's who feed them with money, drugs and women, if they did the Drug Lords would have the cops and their families head on a platter asap ! Anyone who applauds this as being a form of justice is sadly misinformed. Where else have you heard of a city firing it's entire police force ? The answer is - Mexico !

[hawaiianstile]

01:38 AM on 01/03/2012

lol what was the name of that movie?

[TexasBlueTick]

05:24 AM on 01/03/2012

The movie is called "Reality" What would you know about Mexico ? Obviously nothing since you live in a fanasy world ! Where you think the Mexican Police are Like Andy and Barney and it's Mayberry every day !

[ron071]

08:54 AM on 01/02/2012

It seems that torture is widely used when a cop is killed.  Once again, law enforcement corruption rears its ugly head.  Officers of the law MUST be held to the SAME standards as other citizens lest they run wild which they are too often prone to do.  Their arrogance sometimes knows no bounds.

[grant06]

01:18 PM on 01/02/2012

Actually, I think they should be held to a HIGHER standard.

[Rocks911]

08:54 AM on 01/02/2012

Probably picking up pointers from the U.S.

[hawaiianstile]

01:39 AM on 01/03/2012

nah the US invades other countries first. they forgot that step.