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Weekly Report - 23 April 2020 (WR-20-16)
MEXICO: Prisoner amnesty gets go ahead
An amnesty law took effect in Mexico on 23 April after approval by the senate and promulgation by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It is designed to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons by paving the way for the release of around 6,000 inmates serving time for minor offences. The bill had been stuck in the senate since approval by the lower chamber last December. But the senate reconvened at López Obrador’s behest to push through the bill which, he argued, was motivated by humanitarian concerns and more important than ever amid fears that packed prisons are the perfect breeding grounds for coronavirus (Covid-19).
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