Source: Los Ángeles Press via MXporFCassez
Author: Guadalupe Lizárraga
July 24, 2014
Translation: RZ for CART / ACDV
Giel Meza, human rights activist for Gente de México por la Democracia (“People of Mexico for Democracy”) was arbitrarily detained by federal agents on July 13, 2014 at 6 p.m. A complaint was subsequently filed before the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District
(file CDHDF/121/14/CNDH/R0689).
He was interrogated for five hours about the reports that were published in the Los Angeles Press in relation to the fabricated kidnapping and murder of Hugo Alberto Wallace in 2005 and the supporting evidence that was provided by the Canadian Association for Rights and Truth.
The agents said that they were federal police but they did not identify themselves. They asked Giel Meza to put his hands up and then pointed a gun at him. They said that they had an arrest warrant against him (with no explanation of the motive) and that they would show it to him once they got to the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO). They got him into a car (with no police logo) and then drove around for about fifteen minutes before arriving at the offices of the Attorney General.
Once inside the SEIDO office, they transferred him to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and told him that he was being held as a witness in conjunction with the complaint filed by Isabel Miranda de Wallace for a number of reports that were published in the media, yet they did not inform him of the type of complaint filed, nor provide him with the official preliminary investigation notice number or the file number.
After an officer by the name of Laris indicated to him that he was being held as a witness, the unidentified federal agents maintained that they had to proceed this way because he ignored the subpoenas that were sent to his home. Meza requested copies of the subpoenas but they refused to provide them to him. It was then evident to him that the subpoenas never existed.
Meza indicated in an interview for the Los Angeles Press that the federal agents mainly questioned him on whether he provided the evidence in the fabricated Wallace case: birth certificates that showed that Hugo Alberto Wallace had a double identity, the Unique Population Registry Code (CURP) issued five years after his alleged death and other official documents that showed traces that he was still alive. They also asked him what relationship he had with the reporters who had access to the evidence, namely Anabel Hernandez (Proceso), and Guadalupe Lizárraga (Los Angeles Press).
The activist mentioned that they also asked him about the document he had signed along with David Bertet, president of the Montreal-based Canadian Association for Rights and Truth that was addressed to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in Mexico to highlight the case of Brenda Quevedo Cruz who was accused and tortured as a result of Wallace’s false crime report.
The 29-page document is an analysis of the incriminating testimonies of the accused victims in the Wallace case. It revealed discrepancies and serious contradictions on how the alleged crime was perpetrated.
Giel Meza left the SEIDO office around 11 p.m. that same Sunday evening. He told the Los Angeles Press that what surprised him was the way they detained him, how they violated his human rights and that it happened on a day and time when there were virtually no witnesses.
Listen to the June 23, 2014 radio interview in spanish with Giel Meza and Patricia Barba on Desde la raíz (“From the root”).
