On May 19, the Cerezo Committee posted on social media: “Rally at #SEGOB [Ministry of the Interior] to mark the 25th meeting of the Special Commission on Searches #ForcedDisappearance #GabrielandEdmundo”
Later that day, they also posted: “Remarks by Nadi Reyes Maldonado, daughter of Edmundo Reyes Amaya, upon leaving the Special Search Commission #ForcedDisappearance #GabrielandEdmundo”
Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez
The Cerezo Committee has previously explained: “On May 25, 2007, in the city of Oaxaca, Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez, members of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party-Popular Revolutionary Army (PDR) were arrested and disappeared by various police and military groups.”
Supreme Court decision and formation of Special Search Commission
Proceso has reported: “On May 6, 2019, the Fourth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters in Mexico City issued a sentence that recognized ‘the serious violation of human rights’ against Popular Revolutionary Army members ‘by agents of the Mexican State’.” That decision was appealed by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Secretariat of National Defence (Sedena).
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared notes: “On August 10, 2022, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation issued the ruling in favor of the victims, Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, detained and disappeared on May 25, 2007.”
A Special Search Commission was established on November 3, 2022. A first objective was to develop a comprehensive search plan.
Accompaniment
Peace Brigades International began to accompany the Cerezo Committee in 2002.
We have followed this case of the forcible disappearance of Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez for almost four years beginning with this article: PBI-Mexico accompanies Cerezo Committee at sit-in protest at Supreme Court (August 11, 2022).
PBI-Canada met with Francisco Cerezo Contreras of the Cerezo Committee in Mexico City in February 2026.
