Mexican Activist Shot to Death in Sinaloa
A leading human rights activist who had been demanding that the government crack down on organized crime in Sinaloa state has been shot to death, state authorities said Friday.
Jorge Aguirre Meza, 39, a lawyer and president of the state bar, was among four activists who campaigned against police torture and abuse in 1990, leading to the creation of the National Human Rights Commission. He is the third of the four activists to be killed.
Four men ambushed Aguirre Meza and shot him outside his home in the town of Navolato late Wednesday. He died of bullet wounds to the head. No arrests have been made.
In 1990, he and the three other activists campaigned for a mandatory 50-year prison sentence for police who torture suspects.
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