The Mexican government approved the Amnesty Law that pardons at least 6,000 people convicted or in prison for minor offenses to prevent the spread of coronavirus in prisons.
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, issued the Amnesty Law on Wednesday, which, after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Official Gazette), will enter into force on Thursday.
The Senate last Monday approved an amnesty law presented by López Obrador. This opinion aims to guarantee the right to health protection of persons deprived of liberty for minor crimes.
This measure will benefit those who have been arrested for drug trafficking in poverty, or who have been forced by organized crime groups.
Indigenous people who did not have interpreters or lawyers who knew their language during a judicial process may also receive this benefit.
Likewise, this provision will release those who committed acts to alter the Mexican State for political reasons, as well as those who have been convicted of the crime of simple robbery, the document states.
This amnesty project was one of López Obrador’s proposals during his electoral campaign. He said that this law is:
“Initiative in particular that has to do with the humble people who were not assisted, who had no lawyers. It is releasing indigenous people who are unjustly in jails, women, the elderly, who did not have an adequate defense, who were not assisted, were not helped; and the crimes for which they are accused are not serious, they are not crimes of blood, of violence. ”
Mexico currently has 19 high-security prisons with nearly 17,000 inmates and 309 state prisons with some 176,000 incarcerated.
Source: Telesur
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