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>URGENT ACTION  MEXICO  URGENT ACTION  MEXICO  URGENT
>                                        April 8, 1996
>        ATTACK, THREATS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
>Dear Friends,
>
>We have received news from Amnesty International that at 3 am on April
>4th, Dr Teresa Jardi, a renowned human rights defender, received
>anonymous threats on the telephone at her home in Mexico City.  This is
>the latest incident among several affecting Dr. Teresa Jardi, her son,
>Dr Julian Andrade Jardi, and Hector Gutierrez Ugalde, an employee of
>the latter who, on March 27th was abducted near Dr Teresa Jardi's home,
>in Coyoacan, Mexico City, by three unidentified men who forced him into
>a vehicle and drove him to an unidentified house on the outskirts of
>Mexico City.  When he asked his abductors who they were and to show an
>arrest warrant, he was beaten in the head, kicked in the body, and
>threatened with death.  He was ordered to tell Dr Julian Andrade Jardi
>and Dr Teresa Jardi that they would be killed for their work. He was
>released later that night after being driven by his captors out of the
>city.  A complaint was presented the following day but those
>responsible have remained at large. Dr Julian Andrad
>
>BACKGROUND INFORMATION
>Amnesty International is seriously alarmed about the increasing number
>of reports of attacks and threats against people advocating human
>rights in Mexico.  On March 26th Gina Batista, a reporter and program
>director for Canal 40, a Mexican TV channel, survived unharmed after
>she was shot at by unidentified individuals driving a vehicle which
>intercepted her car in Mexico City. The attackers also hurled threats
>against her for her work as a journalist.  In an apparently unrelated
>incident the same day, Jose Luis Robledo and Sonia Lara, grass roots
>activists working for Coordination of Solidarity with Alternative
>Struggle, an NGO in Mexico City, reportedly received up to ten
>anonymous telephone calls threatening them with death for their
>activities on behalf of neighbours' rights in Mexico City.
>Journalists, human rights defenders and members of grassroots
>organizations who have been active in publicizing human rights
>violations, or promoting and protecting human rights in Mexico, have
>often encountered oppos
>
>RECOMMENDED ACTION:
>Please send messages expressing grave concern about the attack against
>Hector Gutierrez Ugalde and the threats against Dr Teresa Jardi and her
>son Dr Julian Andrade Jardi; calling for immediate measures to
>guarantee the safety of all three;  urging a prompt and thorough
>investigation into the attack and  threats and that those found
>responsible be brought to justice; and urging the authorities to step
>up effective measures to ensure the  safety of all human rights
>defenders in Mexico and politely            requesting to be informed
>about which measures are to be implemented to ensure such protection.
>
>Please also send a message to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
>briefly describing the violations named above and asking him to convey
>the above messages to the Mexican government.  Please send copies of
>this message to the Foreign Affairs critics for the Reform Party and
>NDP.
>
>ADDRESSES
>Lic. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon,                     FAX: 011 525
>271 1764
>Presidente de la Republica,                     or              011 525
>515 4783
>Palacio Nacional 06067
>Mexico D.F., MEXICO  Telexes:    170937 sppnme; 1774468 sppnme
>
>Hon. Lloyd Axworthy,                            FAX:    1 613 947-4442
>Minister of Foreign Affairs,                    Phone: 1 613 995 0153
>House of Commons,
>Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
>Bob Mills, M.P. (Reform Party)          FAX: 1 613 995 6831
>Bill Blaikie, M.P. (NDP)                                FAX: 1 613 995
>6688
>Both are at House of Commons-no postage necessary.
>
>
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