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Highlited Cases: National Guard
Case 39
Transcriber: KG
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8 Incidents of Abuse
Corruption by an Authority
Documenter: KG
Name of Person Abused: Anonymous
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Honduran
Date of Incident: November 3, 2022
Agency: National Guard
Type of Alleged Abuse: Corruption by an Authority
Unlawful Prolonged Detention
Location of Incident: Checkpoint in Tapachula.
"I am from Honduras, I am 27 years old, I arrived in Mexico on October 29. We wanted to leave the other day to cross the border through Tijuana. At the exit of Tapachula at a checkpoint, we were caught by the police who were in green uniforms, National Guard and the others in green uniforms but lighter, they wanted to take two thousand dollars from us, we told them we didn't have any money. The other migrants who were with us of Haitian and Chilean origin and some Cubans gave them money, but we had none.
They brought us back and took us to the Siglo XXI Migration Center, the National Migration Institute gave us a sheet and told us we could stay for 30 days, but my partner, who is not the father of my baby, stayed in jail there, just because we did not give them money, since they did not accept the little money we had and they detained us".
