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warning her of her integrity and life, always mixed with insults, and in other
occasions they identified themselves as serial killers of women;”
c)
“The threats intensified and she began to worry more when her mother
received several phone calls from unknown individuals who asked personal
information about her daughter […]. They never agreed to identify
themselves, and only said that they were calling from a magazine or a
company which after investigating were confirmed not to exist.”
d)
“During this time the car chases began. For example, one day after
leaving the newspaper […] a truck began following her, after a while it
blocked her way home, and then left some minutes later;”
e)
“The threats at work began after that. [O]n February 17, 2003 the
remains of three other victims were found […] in […] ‘Cristo Negro hill’ […].
After trying to go up a hillock to see better, one of the agents chased her and
violently forced her to leave, although she was in an area outside of that
enclosed by the police;”
f)
“When she stopped working at Norte Newspaper, […] “[she h]ad several
job offers, but all were rejected with the argument that she was responsible
for staining the city’s image;”
g)
“The magnitude of the governmental campaign […] has produced
rejection and a permanent risk for people who have denounced and
documented this violence” and Ms. Pérez Torres “has been identified as one of
the main individuals who documented and established records of the facts of
violence against women committed by the authorities.”
h)
“This risk [is] present for all members of her immediate family, including
her mother” and “has led to the decision that her oldest daughter, 13 years
old, stop attending high school, as they do not have the minimum safety
guarantees.” Specifically, “[w]hile [Ms.] Pérez Torres still worked for the El
Norte newspaper, people who were not from that educational institution
would situate themselves outside and try to get her daughter to approach
them,” and
i)
“Her husband’s situation, Alejandro Quintero, is extremely worrisome,
since he is also a journalist,” and “his safety has also been affected.”
Specifically, at his newspaper “he was left out from the group of people who
obtained a car for safer and more efficient transport, which were given mainly
to those who have written and disseminated the premises of the campaign to
clean the image of Ciudad Juárez with regards to femicide” and “two months
ago […] he quit his job, given that neither the media […] nor the local
authorities provided the minimum safety guarantees for his work.”
12.
That in view of the foregoing the representatives concluded that “the risk
situation is not sustainable for the whole Quintero Pérez family” and “that the main
way to ensure their safety is for them to leave Ciudad Juárez and stay away from
public security bodies.” They added two specific context situations which increase the
climate of risk against their life and integrity: “the militarization of Ciudad Juárez