Pablo Molinet - Poet
- Artist/Author/Producer: Pablo Maria Jonathan Molinet Aguilar
- Confronting Bodies: members of the state judicial police
- Dates of action: March 24, 1992
- Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
- Description of the Art Work
- Molinet is a student and a poet.
- Description of incident
- On March 24, 1992, Molinet was arrested without warrant by members of the
state judicial police. He remained in incommunicado detention for
several hours during which he was tortured and forced to sign a blank
statement. The Ministerio Publico, who witnessed his arbitrary arrest,
dismissed Molinet's complaints of torture and, based on his forced
confession, presented the defendant to the courts, accusing him of
murder.
- Results of incident
- At his final trial he was sentenced to 24 years in prison, where he
remains today.
Source: Amnesty International
