Weekly Report - 6 April 2004
MEXICO-US: Year-end airport checks were `abusive'
The Fox government's decision to allow US security personnel to operate in Mexican airports during the year-end terrorism alert has been condemned by the Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH, the human rights commission, an independent official body). It says that passengers were abused and that their rights were violated. The CNDH received 279 complaints from passengers about abusive treatment. It investigated the security operations at seven airports: Mexico city, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Reynosa and Tijuana.
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