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Document #1216867
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For reports on the arrest and/or prosecution of students during the strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1999 and 2000, please refer to MEX37023.FE of 10 May 2001, MEX37445.E of 16 July 2001 and other Responses. For discussion of the political links of the General Strike Command (CGH), including initial participation in the strike by students, teachers and groups with direct or indirect links to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), please refer to MEX36791.E of 9 May 2001, MEX38341.E of 17 January 2002, and other Responses.
However, no references to PRD affiliation of the CGH members who were arrested and faced charges after the strike could be found among the sources consulted. No reports of PRD members or sympathizers facing abuses since the strike, as a result of their support for the strike, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Consulted
El Informador [Guadalajara].
2000-2002.
IRB Databases.
La Jornada [Mexico City].
2000-2002.
Latinamerica Press [Lima].
2000-2002.
Latin American Regional Reports:
Mexico & NAFTA Report [London]. 2000-2002.
Partido de la Revolución
Democrática (PRD), Mexico City. Searchable archives and
current documents.
Público [Guadalajara]. Searchable
archives, 2000-2002.
La Revista Peninsular [Merida,
Yucatan]. 2000-2002.
Terra, México City. News
archives, 2000-2002.
Internet search engines and sites, including:
Amnesty International
Derechos/Grupo Nizkor
Human Rights Watch
Mexican League for the Defense of Human
Rights (LIMEDDH)
Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez
Human Rights Center (PRODH), Mexico City
Notimex
Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de
Derechos Humanos and related organizations
Note:
This list is not exhaustive.
Country-specific publications available at the Resource Centre are
not listed.
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