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eyewitnesses into the killings of two human rights defenders have been
harassed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. This is an apparent attempt to
stop them from giving testimony in court. Their lives could be at risk.
On 22 January relatives of a man who has been arrested in connection with the killing of human rights defenders Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola
intimidated two Indigenous women who witnessed the events. Both
witnesses are soon due to give oral testimonies in court. The relatives
confronted the two women (whose names are withheld for security reasons)
in the town of El Carrizal, Oaxaca State, southern Mexico, where the
women live, and told them to retract their previous written testimonies.
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