Mexcian mother held and tortured in military barracks for a week.

Thirty-year-old Miriam Lopez, a Mexican housewife and mother of four children, was tortured and raped by soldiers in 2011. Two men in civilian clothes, who were later identified as members of the military, arrested her in February 2011 in her hometown of Ensenada and dragged her to the military barracks in Tijuana. There, she was held and interrogated for seven days. During this period, members of the army raped her three times, applied electric shocks and subjected her to near asphyxiation and stress positions. Soldiers also threatened to cut her hand and showed her recent pictures of her children and partner, taken covertly on the streets. The perpetrators told her that they “would go for them” if she didn’t cooperate with them.
Army personnel tortured Miriam López in order to coerce her into signing a self-incriminating confession which falsely implicated her in drug trafficking offences. It also implicated other detainees, unknown to Miriam López, in the same crimes. A state appointed public defender was present during parts of interrogation but failed to take any action to protect her rights or stop her ill-treatment.