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AS IT IS 2016-07-01 Report: Women Prisoners Tortured in Mexico 墨西哥监狱虐待女囚犯

Five years ago, police stopped Veronica Razo on a street in Mexico City and took her to federal prison.

She was beaten, tortured with electrical shocks and raped¹. Today, she is still awaiting the finish of her trial.

She is one of a large number of women who were tortured after their arrest, according to a report by Amnesty International.

The rights group said its report is based on meetings with or statements from 100 women who were jailed in Mexico. All of them reported torture or other abusive treatment, it said. Thirty-three reported being raped while in detention².

Erika Guevara-Rosas is a human rights lawyer and Amnesty International’s Americas Director. She said the jailed women are victims of what she calls Mexico’s “so-called war on drugs.”

“They are usually seen as easy targets by authorities who are often more eager to show they are putting people behind bars than to ensure they are finding the real criminals,” she added.

Guevara-Rosas said that, in Mexico, “sexual violence” has become a routine part of how police question criminal suspects.

Veronica Razo was charged with being part of a kidnapping ring. Amnesty International asked why it has taken so long for a court to decide her case.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto traveled to Canada this week for talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama. The Mexican leader said his government is making progress on human rights.

“Our government has made an important effort to advance issues related to human rights,” he said. “We still have work to do. However, I think we are moving in the right direction towards having human rights being fully³ respected.”

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on the talks. It said Philippe Couillard, premier⁴ of Quebec Province, expressed concerns about human rights during a meeting with Pena Nieto on Monday.

Couillard said that Mexico is “moving in the right direction.”

When Razo was arrested, her daughter was seven and her son was 13, according to Amnesty International. They are now 13 and 18. Amnesty says the son is unable to go to college because of all the money it has cost to pay lawyers defending his mother.

Amnesty International provides other examples of women it says were abused after their arrest.

It said that Tailyn Wang was seven months pregnant when federal police officers broke into her house in 2014. The police took her to a police station.

After being beaten and sexually abused by the police, she miscarried, Amnesty International said. The fetus⁵ was not yet viable⁶ and died.

Words in This Story

authorities – n. people who have power to make decisions and enforce rules and laws

eager – adj. very excited to do something

ensure – v. to make something sure, certain, or safe

routine –? adj. done very often?

ring – n. a group of criminals who plan and carry out crimes together

advance – v. to move forward

viable – adj. capable of living or of developing into a living thing

1 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

2 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

5 fetus   

n.胎，胎儿

参考例句：

• In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时期生成在不同的部位。
• No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。

6 viable   

adj.可行的，切实可行的，能活下去的

参考例句：

• The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
• The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。