Article: SUPREME COURT AGREES TO INVESTIGATE POLICE ABUSES DURING MAY 2006 CRACKDOWN IN MEXICO STATE.

In a 7-4 vote, Mexico's high court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion, SCJN) agreed in early February to open an investigation on the conduct of state and federal police during the crackdown on demonstrators in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco in May 2006. The court did not set a timetable for the conclusion of the investigation but named federal Judges Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo and Alejandro Gonzalez Bernabe to take charge of the case. The SCJN will determine whether any human rights abuses occurred when police intervened to quash the demonstration, which followed a dispute regarding the rights of independent vendors to sell flowers outside a local market in ...

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