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Article: Abuse targeted at rights activists; A new report by a Paris-based human rights group says 200 activists.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 10, 1999
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On Oct. 28, a group of armed masked men burst into Digna Ochoa y Placido's Mexico City home and tied her up. They interrogated her for several hours, accusing her of ties to leftist guerrillas, and then turned the gas on before leaving her to die.
Mrs. Ochoa y Placido is a human rights lawyer. This time she was rescued. But her ordeal illustrates a disturbing worldwide trend, say human rights observers: Human rights activists are increasingly finding themselves the victims of abuse.
"Repression practiced against [rights] defenders ... seems to have increased in intensity," says a report published this week by the Paris-based Observatory for the ...