For the umpteenth time, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called for eliminating the Informal Preventive Detention (PPO) of the Constitution.
This January 1, the department of the United Nations Organization (UN) Through his account on X (@ONUDHMexico) he reiterated his position against the PPO, after the reform that expands the crimes that merit said figure:
“We reaffirm that this figure contravenes human rights. The PPO, far from expanding and hardening, should be eliminated. According to international mechanisms“It is an arbitrary detention.”
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The message is accompanied by a infographic in which the buts against the figure are presented, namely:
- Attacks the presumption of innocence
- Equality before the law
- The right to personal integrity
- Judicial independence
- Effective prosecution of crimes
1/2 Before the publication in the #DOF of the reform on Informal Preventive Detention #PPOwe reaffirm that this figure contravenes #HumanRights. The #PPOfar from expanding and hardening, should be eliminated. According to international mechanisms, it is a #ArbitraryDetention. pic.twitter.com/z3Lcs7B0q1
— UN-DH Mexico (@ONUDHmexico) January 1, 2025
Reform on preventive detention published in the DOF
This, after it was published on December 31 in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) the reform that expanded the catalog of crimes to whom Preventive Detention is applied.
In the evening edition of DOF that day, the president Claudia Sheinbaum The decree that formalizes the reform to the second paragraph of the article 19 of the Constitution.
Therefore, the PPO is already in force for the extortion, synthetic drug traffickingas well as for the smugglingas well as for the “invoice”.
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The modification to Constitutional 19 was approved with 355 votes in favor and 108 againstand establishes that it will be a judge who orders the informal preventive detention in cases of extortion and crimes provided for in the applicable laws committed by the illegal introduction and diversion, production, preparation, disposal, acquisition, import, export, transportation, storage and distribution of chemical precursors and essential chemicals, fentanyl and derivatives.
On December 4, the Chamber of Deputies declared the constitutionality of the reform, after 20 State Legislatures They endorsed it, namely:
Baja California, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas and Mexico City.
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