Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Mexico: Release torture victim Yecenia Armenta now! - ONLINE ACTION

Amnesty International

     Yecenia Armenta has spent almost three years in prison while the men who brutally tortured her remain free. Her nightmare began in 2012, while she was driving relatives to the airport in Culiacán, northern Mexico. Plain-clothed policemen pulled her car over, forced her out, blindfolded her and drove her away. They tied her up, hung her upside down, beat her and raped her, all while making violent and terrifying death threats against her two children. “I wanted them to just give me a bullet to the head so that it would all stop”, she says.
     After almost 15 hours of torture, her aggressors threatened to bring her children to rape and kill them. It was at that moment she succumbed to the policemen’s demands to sign a confession and give them her fingerprints, all while still blindfolded.
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