A group of activists take part in a protest called by civil organisations against the police, after four police officers had been accused of raping a minor last weekend in their patrol car in Azcapotzalco. – AFP pic, August 13, 2019.
PROTESTERS in Mexico City demanded justice yesterday for two teenage girls who say police officers raped them, dousing the capital’s security minister in pink glitter and smashing the glass doors of the local prosecutor’s office. Shouting “Justice!”, around 250 people, mostly women, took to the streets to protest the lack of punishment in the two cases, the latest to trigger outrage over the high rate of violence against women and girls in Mexico.
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