Amnesty International Demands Justice for November 20 Detainees Liliana Alcantara and Natalia Gomez Quintero - El Universal
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According to Amnesty International, legal representatives who met with some of the detainees saw that they had suffered blows to their faces, haemorrhaging in their eyes and cuts on their arms. (El Universal)

Amnesty International urged authorities to carry out a full, prompt and immediate investigation into the alleged arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of the 11 demonstrators.

Amnesty International (AI) made an urgent appeal to President Enrique Peña Nieto and Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam to prevent that the 11 people arrested on November 20 after riots at Mexico City's Zócalo are subjected to an unfair judicial process.

"All detainees have reported ill-treatment and have been transferred to far-away, high-security prisons which impose serious limitations on their ability to contact lawyers and relatives," the organization said.

It added that "legal representatives who met with some of the detainees saw that they had suffered blows to their faces, hemorrhage in their eyes and cuts on their arms".

The organization based in London, England, urged authorities to carry out a full, prompt and immediate investigation into the alleged arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of the 11 demonstrators, including by carrying out forensic medical examinations in full compliance with international standards or by allowing independent forensic experts to carry them out.

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