President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) who have withdrawn their projects on informal pretrial detention to elaborate new ones; he assured that this will avoid many problems.
“Thank you very much to the ministers of the Court who withdrew an initiative to remove informal pretrial detention, which was going to generate many problems for us because of the corruption that unfortunately exists,” he said.
At a press conference, he pointed out that there is still corruption in the judiciary, as well as in the executive and legislative branches.
.@lopezobrador_ thanked the @SCJN for withdrawing the initiative to eliminate informal pretrial detention. “It was going to cause us many problems to remove the measure because of the corruption that still exists not only in the Judiciary but in the Legislative and Executive,” he said. pic.twitter.com/Htx9fBGwgU
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He assured that the right of the population to security will continue to be defended and the strategy “that has given good results” will be maintained.
Read: Eliminating pretrial detention would “open the door” to 92,000 detainees and give way to impunity: Mejía Berdeja
Yesterday, after three days of discussion in the plenary session of the Supreme Court, the debate on whether or not informal pretrial detention in Mexico is a violation of human rights and should be limited in the Constitution was again postponed.
Ministers Luis María Aguilar and Norma Lucía Piña, authors of the two bills under discussion, announced Thursday morning that they were withdrawing these documents to elaborate new ones, in order to seek greater consensus among the 11 members of the plenary.
So far, there is no fixed date for the new analysis and subsequent vote.
On Thursday, during his morning conference, President López Obrador said that if the Supreme Court endorsed the project it would be a “chicanada.”
Animal Político documented in a joint investigation with Intersecta that, especially in this six-year term in which the catalog of crimes of article 19 was expanded, informal preventive detention became “the weapon that imprisons the poor and innocent.”
Read our report on informal pretrial detention
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