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Manuel Gómez Vázquez has been unjustly imprisoned for two years and five months. He belongs to the Mayan-Tzeltal people, speaks little Castilian, is 22 years old and is a peasant farmer. He was illegally detained on December 4, 2020 by an armed civilian group and community authorities. Manuel was tortured and treated cruelly. One day after his arrest, he was handed over to the Municipal Public Security Secretariat of Ocosingo, Chiapas, and to investigative police from the Indigenous Justice Prosecutor’s Office of the State Attorney General’s Office. It was not until December 9, five days after his illegal detention, that Manuel was handed over to a court. It is worth noting that at the time of Manuel’s arrest, the municipal president of Ocosingo, as well as the governor of the state of Chiapas, belonged to Morena.
Endorsement from EZLN:
Unconditional freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez (taken hostage since 2020 by the state government of Chiapas) and José Díaz Gómez (hostage since last year), indigenous Zapatista bases imprisoned for that reason, for being Zapatistas.
Endorsement from The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba):
In Chiapas there is a justice system that criminalizes defenders of human rights, land and territory, fabricates crimes and culprits, such as the case of the five companions of San Juan Cancuc, the two companions of San Jerónimo Bachajón , and Manuel Gómez Vázquez Support Base of the EZLN, as well as Bersaín Velasco García, both from the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas, all Tseltal indigenous people. Today we demand their freedom and an end to criminalization.
English language sources about FRAYBA - sweFOR, OMCT