San Diego.
In a historic ruling, the ICHR Human Rights Committee decided that the United States committed a execution outside the judiciary using torture, on the death of a Mexican immigrant, and then covered the facts.
One of the lawyers who represented the relatives of the migrants said: “Ichr has released failures about the state’s murder, or the executions outside the judiciary in many other countries, but the case of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas determines the first time that the committee has issued such a ruling to the United States.”
“This is the first time that the committee has determined the responsibility of the United States for execution outside of the judiciary,” said Rukana Althols, director of the Legal Human Rights Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley, who represented Hernandez Rojas relatives.
“The committee concluded that American border agents tortured and killed Anastasio,” he said.
Dozens of border federal agents left the beating and frequent electrical drain paralysis to Hernandez Rojas, whose hands were shackled behind his back. The man died between the screams, through which he sought help in Garretta de San Ysidro, a few meters away to move to Mexican territory.
Although the facts were presented in videos and certificates, the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) has reported that he had conducted an investigation that absolves the agents concerned.
Ichr now mentioned that this internal investigation is incomplete and partial.
Hernandez Rojas was originally from Saint Luis Potosi, who lived more than two decades in San Diego County, where he had his own billiard maintenance company, he was the father of five American children, and he was seven years old when he died.
“It is clear that Anastasio was killed by agents who have no mercy on him.”
When Anastasio Hernandez died, a forensic doctor in San Diego announced after an autopsy that it was a murder.
A year ago, the Mexico government published a statement, “Mexico repeated its solidarity with the Anastasio Hernandez Rojas National family, which died in May 2010 by border border agents, in the city of San Diego, California, which applies electric shocks repeatedly and hit him at the ground, was subject to him.”
“The Mexico government opposes excessive use of power by the authorities by detaining anyone, regardless of his nationality or their migration,” the statement continued.
Lawyer Althols said that this failure in the iachr opens the door so that dozens of more people are investigated by border agents, most of them Mexicans.
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- Dozens of federal agents in the United States of America left frequent and frequent electric shocks to Hernandez Rojas, who was handcuffed and cried in Garretta de San Ysidro.
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