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attacked them and pushed them into a vehicle. In particular, Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio
recounted that “the police blocked the street; we heard cries, people were running and I received
a blow to the back of my neck and fell down; they pulled my sweater over my head and
continued to hit me.” She stated that the police lifted her up with the sweater over her head,
gripped her tightly, beat her stomach, arms and legs, touched her buttocks, took away her
backpack and made her get into a bus. She added that she told the police that she was on a
reporting assignment, and they mocked her and continued to beat her for several minutes. They
also took away her camera and asked for her personal data and that of her family, threatening
her and saying things such as that her mother would also “be fucked” and that “soon, we’re going
to rape you and then we’re going to make you disappear.” She recounted that they told her that
this was happening to her “because [she] was not at home washing dishes” and that she was a
whore. Claudia Hernández Martínez described how, on being detained, she was beaten on
different parts of her body and, with her head covered by her sweater, was taken somewhere in a
pick-up. They took her into the yard of a house where they beat her head against a wall, beat her
knees so that she would open her legs, then beat her between her legs and touched her genitalia,
breasts and buttocks. She indicated that she could see the badge of the “PFP” and was filmed
while they were asking for her personal data. She also recounted that she “was taken, bent over,
by the hair and trouser belt through a line of police agents who, kicked [her] as [she] went by,”
and that then she “was told to sit down on a bench looking at the floor, where [her] back and
head were beaten with a baton and the police kicked” her. Lastly, she was put into a truck.
84. Mariana Selvas Gómez and Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez were detained while they were
providing medical care in San Salvador Atenco. In particular, Mariana Selvas Gómez indicated
that she had accompanied her father to San Salvador Atenco that day in order to provide medical
care to one of his patients, when around 50 police agents arrived and told them to line up against
a wall; they were told to put their hands on their necks and they were beaten until they fell down;
the beatings and kicks continued until they were pulled up and put into a pick-up truck. She
added that, while she was being beaten, they yelled insults at her such as “fucking whore, piece
of shit.” Meanwhile, Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez was taking part in a health brigade in San
Salvador Atenco and, while providing medical care to a man affected by tear gas, a police agent
took her by the hair and beat her repeatedly with his baton while threatening to kill her if she
lifted her head. She indicated that they insulted her, saying “whore, bitch, you’ll soon see what’s
coming to you.” She also recounted that she was able to see that “the agents trousers were bluegrey, […] this was not from the state of Mexico; rather they were federal police [PFP grenadiers],
and they were wearing boots; it was those police agents who were kicking [her].”
85. Meanwhile, Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo had arrived at the scene, together with her
partner, to take photographs and do interviews on behalf of the magazine she worked for.
Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno was taking photographs for her thesis. They were both detained on
private property, where they had taken refuge to protect themselves from tear gas fired by the
police. Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo indicated that the police who entered the home “hit
[her] and touched [her] indecently”; they asked her why she was not studying; they told her that
she “was a whore” and each time they asked her name they hit her in the ribs. She recalled that,
“at one moment, they pushed us against a wall and we heard them handling their weapons and
they hit us on the head with their weapons,” while threatening to kill them. She described how
she was taken out into the street while they “hit [her] with a baton,” and that, when she was
sitting down in the street, “they lifted up [her] blouse, undid [her] brassiere, tried to feel [her],
touched [her] buttocks and pinched [her] breasts.” She recounted that she had her jacket over
her head so that she could not see, that they “pulled at [her] trousers,” and said something like
““open your legs, whore’ […] and began to try and touch [her] with their hands […] [so she]
closed her legs and they seized [her] and opened [her] legs with their boots and kicked [her]
vagina.” She added that they pulled her hair and said: “bitch, now you’re really fucked, you’re