Mexico: Drop unfair charges against tortured prisoner of conscience

Headline Title:  Mexico: Drop unfair charges against tortured prisoner of conscience 23 July 2014  An undocumented migrant who was arrested and tortured by the Mexican police and army is currently facing an unfair trial solely because of his ethnicity and should be released immediately and unconditionally, said Amnesty International today, as it named him a prisoner of conscience.  In 2009 Ángel Amílcar Colón Quevedo, a member of the Afro-descent Garífuna community, was picked up by police in Tijuana, Mexico, as he attempted to travel from his home in Honduras to the…

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