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Weekly Report - 22 March 2018 (WR-18-11)

MEXICO: New police search powers provoke polemic

Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) has approved the new police search powers included in the country’s 2014 national code of criminal procedures. But the approval is proving controversial, with the likes of the national human rights commission (CNDH) warning that it could lead to the systematic violation of civil rights in Mexico that could turn the country into a police state.

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