The Ombudsman’s Office for Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca (DDHPO) has launched an investigation against the state and municipal police officers of San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, who paraded a naked woman through the streets of the Hacienda Blanca police station after she was detained and stripped of her clothes by a group of residents who accused her of belonging to a robbery group.
These events, the agency stated, constituted an act that directly violated her dignity, exposing her to public ridicule.
“Regardless of the accusations against her, the duty of police authorities is to guarantee the integrity and rights of every person in their custody. By neglecting this responsibility of protection and allowing public exposure in degrading conditions, this constitutes a serious violation of the right to a life free from violence.”
In a statement, the DDHPO announced that the opening of an official file aims to investigate the actions of the San Pablo Etla state and municipal police and determine the corresponding institutional responsibilities.
The DDHPO urged the San Pablo Etla authorities to urgently implement action protocols for their security forces, focusing on human rights and a gender perspective. If such protocols do not exist, they must be developed and institutionalized as a priority.
“No woman should be subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, nor should she be exposed to violence that perpetuates stigmas or practices outside the framework of a democratic state governed by the rule of law,” it stated.
GESMujer condemns humiliation of women
The Rosario Castellanos Women’s Studies Group (GESMujer) condemned the violence, humiliation, and public exposure of a woman detained by the San Pablo Etla Municipal Police.
“Stripping her naked and parading her in public is not justice: it is torture, institutional violence, and a serious violation of her human rights. We demand justice, punishment for those responsible, and guarantees of non-repetition. Women’s dignity is not negotiable,” the organization stated.
The organization asserted that the woman, accused of an alleged crime, being stripped naked, paraded, and paraded through public spaces while under police custody, is an unacceptable act that revictimizes her, violates her constitutional rights, and demonstrates a total lack of gender- and human rights-based protocols.
Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo
