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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special2/nation/11/18/mexicorape.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc"><cite>Screenshot from Amnesty International website</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>MEXICO CITY - Three Mexican women who were raped and tortured by marines into confessing crimes in 2011 were released from prison on Thursday after a judge acquitted them, Amnesty International said.</p><p>Denise Lovato, Korina Urtrera and Wendy Diaz left jail in the central state of Morelos after spending more than five years behind bars, the London-based rights group said.</p><p>&quot;Denise, Korina and Wendy should have never been imprisoned in the first place,&quot; Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty&#x27;s Americas director.</p><p>&quot;Their harrowing stories show the tragic state of human rights in Mexico, where security forces routinely sexually abuse women to secure &#x27;confessions&#x27; in an attempt to show that they are tackling rampant organized crime,&quot; Guevara-Rosas said.</p><p>Mexican police and troops have been embroiled in a slew of torture scandals since the government launched a militarized campaign against drug cartels in 2006.</p><p>The United Nations special rapporteur on torture said in 2015 that torture was a &quot;generalized&quot; practice among Mexican security forces.</p><p>Amnesty issued a report in June on the stories of 100 women who endured torture and other forms of violence, including sexual abuse, during their arrests and interrogations by police and the military.</p><p>Of those women, 72 said they were sexually attacked during their arrest or in the hours that followed while 33 reported being raped.</p><p>The release of the three women &quot;brings a glimmer of hope to hundreds of others who are held behind bars unfairly across Mexico,&quot; Amnesty said.</p><p>&quot;Investigations should now take place into the torture of Denise, Korina and Wendy and those responsible should face justice,&quot; Guevara-Rosas said.</p><p>Amnesty has launched an international campaign calling for the release of Veronica Razo, a mother of two, who has spent more than five years in prison after federal police allegedly subjected her to 24 hours of torture to confess to a crime.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4w03E-AdjqY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>President Enrique Pena Nieto&#x27;s administration, who inherited the drug war when he took office in 2012, has backed legislation to prevent torture but security forces have continued to commit abuses during his tenure.</p><p>In April, Mexico&#x27;s military chief issued a rare apology after a video emerged showing soldiers and police putting a plastic bag over a woman&#x27;s head to cut off her oxygen as they interrogated her.</p><p>Foreign experts investigating the disappearance of 43 college students in 2014 said there was evidence the authorities tortured at least 17 suspects.</p><p>lth/jm</p><div><strong>© 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>MEXICO CITY - Three Mexican women who were raped and tortured by marines into confessing crimes in 2011 were released from prison on Thursday after a judge acquitted them, Amnesty International said.</p>

MEXICO CITY - Three Mexican women who were raped and tortured by marines into confessing crimes in 2011 were released from prison on Thursday after a judge acquitted them, Amnesty International said.

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Mexico frees women raped, tortured to confess crime

Agence France-Presse

Published November 18, 2016 08:31 AM PHT

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Updated November 18, 2016 08:36 AM PHT

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