Overview
- The Zacatecas human-rights commission said it will initiate an ex officio complaint against the state Public Security Ministry in response to the incident.
- During Governor David Monreal’s fourth report, FRIZ and traffic police removed and confiscated red weavings that mothers’ collectives hung on a pedestrian bridge near the convention center.
- Members of Sangre de mi Sangre and Escarabajos reported being encircled, threatened, and insulted by officers, including a profane remark directed at them and their disappeared relatives.
- The red fabrics were crafted over roughly three years to honor about 3,898 to 4,000 people reported missing in Zacatecas, with nearly half of the cases cited as occurring in the current term.
- State officials denied repression, with the secretary general calling the police presence custodial and the security chief saying officers acted by procedure to secure the venue, while local journalists reported restricted access to the scene.