{"id":1158,"date":"2020-11-10T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-13T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:08:21","slug":"the-three-deaths-of-marisela-escobedo-brought-to-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedehm.org.mx\/es\/2020\/11\/10\/the-three-deaths-of-marisela-escobedo-brought-to-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cedehm.org.mx\/es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JBXJ2563.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"853\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/cedehm.org.mx\/es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JBXJ2563-300x200.jpg\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">The emblematic case of the human rights defender, murdered while demanding justice for her daughter who was the victim of a femicide, began its proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by notifying the Mexican State of the complaint filed against her.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><b>Chihuahua,&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><b>Mexico and San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, November 2, 2020<\/b>&#8211; The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) notified the Mexican State of the complaint filed against it regarding the femicide of Rub\u00ed Fraire Escobedo and the murder of Marisela Escobedo, the latter of whom occurred in December 2010 in front of the Chihuahua Government Palace, when she was carrying out a strong campaign demanding justice for her daughter Rub\u00ed and other victims of femicide.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">This case has been widely publicized with the broadcast of the documentary <b>\u00abThe three deaths of Marisela Escobedo\u00bb<\/b>, which was released this October through the Netflix platform. Her story takes on special relevance in the current Mexican context, which only in the month of June registered record numbers of femicide, with an average of <b>10.3 crimes of women per day<\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\">The petition (international complaint) was presented to the IACHR on June 2019 by the family of Marisela Escobedo, and the accompanying organizations: The Center for Women&#8217;s Human Rights (CEDEHM), the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), and the organization Mexicans in Exile. When the petition was transferred to the Mexican State, the Commission gave it three months to submit its observations.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\">For the representatives, the beginning of the process at the IACHR is a step forward in a long journey for justice. \u00abTaking Marisela&#8217;s case to the Inter-American Human Rights System is a commitment to her family and to her struggle; but it is also the way to demand that the State<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">recognizes its responsibility in the serious human rights violations that have been committed, particularly in the State of Chihuahua,\u00bb said Ruth Fierro, director of CEDEHM.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00abThe prompt handling of the petition by the Commission shows that this case is a priority and emblematic of the Mexican State&#8217;s debts in the area of women&#8217;s rights. Not only because it reflects the continued impunity that persists in the cases of femicide, but also because of the lack of guarantees of protection for the families of the victims who seek justice, who become human rights defenders facing a corrupt and viciously articulated system with factual powers,\u00bb added Vanessa Coria, CEJIL&#8217;s legal coordinator.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">The organizations hope that, following the State&#8217;s response, the IACHR will decide to admit the case and subsequently find Mexico internationally responsible for the violation of the human rights of Rub\u00ed Fraire, Marisela Escobedo and their family. With this, we hope that the walk for the end of impunity, which Marisela began in 2010, will continue to advance until justice is achieved.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The facts about the case<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Rubi Fraire, 16 years old, disappeared at the end of August 2008. Due to the lack of progress in the investigation, her mother, Marisela Escobedo, left everything to become an investigator and human rights defender. Based on the background information that she independently gathered, it was determined that Rub\u00ed was murdered by her partner, Sergio Rafael Barraza Bocanegra, who had already fled Chihuahua.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Marisela&#8217;s efforts, Barraza was captured, but the judicial process ended up exonerating him. Later, in the Court of Cassation, a guilty verdict was reached, but Sergio had again escaped. It was then, that Marisela began a tireless struggle to demand the apprehension of her daughter&#8217;s murderer and undertook a series of actions to achieve it. Marisela&#8217;s struggle brought the country&#8217;s attention to the deficiencies of the Mexican justice system and violence against women in the country.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">On December 16, 2010, while demanding the clarification of the Rubi femicide, Marisela was murdered in front of the Government Palace in Chihuahua, and in the presence of her family members.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">After the crime, the threats Marisela received extended to her family: her brother-in-law Manuel Monge was murdered and her nuclear family had to flee Mexico to seek political asylum, a problem that has not been addressed by the Mexican State either.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cedehm.org.mx\/es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sin-2Bt-25C3-25ADtulo-2_Mesa-2Bde-2Btrabajo-2B1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"397\" data-original-width=\"3300\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/cedehm.org.mx\/es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sin-2Bt-25C3-25ADtulo-2_Mesa-2Bde-2Btrabajo-2B1-300x36.jpg\" width=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The emblematic case of the human rights defender, murdered while demanding justice for her daughter who was the victim of a femicide, began its proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by notifying the Mexican State of the complaint filed against her. 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