Mexican Watch Dog Established to Protect Human Rights in Justice System Gloria Leticia Diaz - Proceso
go to original June 7, 2013

Three years after initiation of the criminal justice reform, civic and academic organizations are putting into operation an agency to ensure full respect for human rights in its implementation.

In announcing the Citizen Observatory of the Judicial System, Miguel Sarre, a professor in the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), said the urgency for civil society to monitor the effective implementation of the criminal justice reform aims to "achieve justice that results in guarantees of citizen security. It is precisely because the previous penal reform (of 1917) was not implemented with adherence to human rights that we now suffer insecurity."

Saar said that the sluggishness of the states to comply with the criminal justice reform is due to "political reasons; no one involved in the old inquisitorial system wants to lose the power they now have, and which does not guarantee justice."

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