A UACH student was arbitrarily detained and assaulted by municipal police officers; accused it was a racist attack

A young student at the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UACH) was accused of robbery and arbitrarily detained by elements of the municipal police of San Cristobal de las Casasas the study house said in a press release.

The facts occurred on the night of Friday February 24, when the student, whose identity has been kept confidential, was “arbitrarily deprived of libertyhandcuffed, put in a patrol car and transferred to the compartments of the corporation.

A story taken from the broken chair clarified that the young woman, who is studying at the Faculty of Law, Campus III, left school that day and went to a bar with a friend. Along the way, they both found a seemingly drunk woman who had fallen, so they decided to help her.

Elements of the Local police to help the young woman, so the student and her friend left the scene. However, when they were already in the bar, a person approached them to complain because the woman’s wallet was missing, which is why he suspected a possible theft.

Following this accusation, the municipal agents went to the bar and UACH student was arrestedapparently without proving that he might be guilty, as upon examining his belongings they could not find the wallet.

Despite this, they transferred her to the command and, apparently, during the trip she was insulted, threatened and attacked by the in uniform Among the acts allegedly perpetrated by the officers was the theft of an inhaler which the young woman uses to treat her asthma.

Added to this, according to the account of the facts, one of the police cut several strands of her hair with scissors after the student complained about the arbitrariness of their practices as civil servants.

“I believe that it was a racist attack because they treated me like a thief just because I’m a black woman,” the UACH student shared, according to the aforementioned outlet.

One of the details of this situation that stands out the most, in addition to the probable attacks, is that the municipal police took only the student and not the people who accused her.

Once at the company’s premises, the officers told him that he would regain his freedom if he paid a sum of three thousand 700 pesosor if not, he would stay there until Sunday, February 26.

However, after receiving the report of the events, the Director of the Faculty of Law and the Gender Equality Coordinator of UACH went to separate rooms to manage the release.

“Due to the absence of elements that would justify the arrest and the illegal deprivation of freedom of the student, on the intervention of the technical secretariat of the town hall and the aforementioned university authorities, She was released around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday February 25.“, explained the UACH in a press release.

Moreover, the document signed by the Chancellor Carlos Nataren Nandayapa He planned that the house of studies would accompany the young woman to file the respective complaints with the Internal Affairs Council of the Municipal Police, the National Commission for Human Rights and, if possible, the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

For this apparent abuse of authority, UACH has requested an investigation to clarify the facts before the arrest, as well as what happened while the student was deprived of her liberty. “You cannot stay out of the charges of violating the human rights of people, a woman and a student from our community,” the institution said.