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Here’s a complete thread about the police repression of feminists tonight in the Estado de México, just outside of Mexico City, one of the most dangerous places to be a women in Mexico. #Atizapán #CodhemEcatepec
This afternoon, feminist collectives took over Ecatepec’s Human Rights Commission building, following a feminist takeover of the National Human Rights Commission last week. The group inside the building included pregnant women and children.
Shortly after midnight, police entered the building and began beating the women inside. They forced them out of the building and stole the cell phone of a journalist who was live-streaming. They forced the women and children into unmarked, unofficial vehicles.
The police took the women and children, along with one journalist, to the Centro de Justicia in Atizapán, where journalists and relatives of the people detained arrived. The officials repeatedly refused to give the family members any info about their relatives or let them enter.
After some time of the family members asking for information, other feminist collective members, including Erika Ramirez, mother of a victim, from the CNDH takeover in downtown Mexico City arrived and confronted police. They forcibly opened the gate into the fiscalía’s courtyard.
Police began tear-gassing the women to force them out of the courtyard. As they returned behind the gate, police brought outside chairs, metal benches, fire extinguishers and other heavy objects.
The police aggression quickly escalated. They continued tear-gassing the women, screaming threats at them, and they started throwing projectiles, chasing and beating the women as they ran. They attempted to choke a journalist as she drove away. They dragged a woman to the ground.
Some women managed to get away in cars. I piled in a car with six other women. We drove away as the police chased us on foot and later saw more police cars heading to the fiscalía. At least one girl from a feminist collectives remains disappeared.
This was an act of violent repression of protestors, relatives of victims and journalists—who arrived to monitor the women and children who were *illegally detained* at the Human Rights Commission while protesting violence against women.
