Declaração do IHRN a respeito de colegas científicos mexicanos

A Rede Internacional de Direitos Humanos de Academias e Sociedades Acadêmicas (IHRN) é uma aliança de mais de 90 sociedades científicas honorárias nacionais que defendem os direitos fundamentais de colegas cientistas, acadêmicos e profissionais de saúde em todo o mundo. Nós, membros do Comitê Executivo do IHRN, estamos preocupados com a situação de 31 cientistas e administradores científicos mexicanos que enfrentam acusações de graves crimes financeiros.

Declaração em inglês:

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRN) is an alliance of more than 90 national honorary scientific societies that defends the fundamental rights of fellow scientists, scholars, and health professionals worldwide. We, the members of the IHRN Executive Committee, are alarmed about the situation of 31 Mexican scientists and scientific administrators who are facing accusations of serious financial crimes.

In recent weeks, the Attorney General of Mexico has filed multiple warrants for the arrest of these individuals, alleging their involvement in organized crime and money laundering, and has sought their detention in a federal maximum-security prison. The alleged crimes carry severe penalties, including the possibility of decades in prison. A federal judge has found insufficient evidence of wrongdoing and has refused to grant arrest warrants for these individuals. However, the Attorney General continues to seek their detention. Repeated efforts to arrest and detain these individuals, based on legal arguments rejected by the country’s Supreme Court, are inconsistent with Mexico’sobligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights, both of which promulgate the right to due process and the right to freedom from arbitrary detention.

We share the concern expressed by many other scientific organizations that our colleagues are being subjected to government harassment and call upon Mexican authorities to ensure that any further investigation of these individuals is in accordance with Mexico’s commitments under international human rights law.

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