WOLA and LAWG sent the following letter to Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior Fernando Francisco Gomez-Mont regarding repeated threats and harassment of members of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Me’phaa (OPIM) including specifically Obtilia Eugenio Manuel, her sister Andrea, and the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, both located in the state of Guerrero.
WOLA and LAWG sent the following letter to Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior Fernando Francisco Gomez-Mont regarding repeated threats and harassment of members of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Me’phaa (OPIM) including specifically Obtilia Eugenio Manuel, her sister Andrea, and the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, both located in the state of Guerrero. WOLA and LAWG have followed these cases for some time and remain concerned at the lack of protection despite the provisional measures granted by the IACHR. In the letter the groups call on the Mexican government to ensure the safety of these human rights defenders and urged the proper authorities to carry out a thorough, impartial and timely investigation of the threats made against Obtilia Eugenio Manuel, her sister Andrea, and the other members of OPIM and Tlachinollan, sanction those responsible, and make public the results of these investigations.
