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On November 20th<\/sup>\u00a02019, Mexican lawyer Arnulfo Cer\u00f3n Soriano, 47 years old and missing for 41 days, was found murdered, buried almost 3 meters deep in a clandestine tomb in El Aguaje in Tlapa, Guerrero, Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n Arnulfo Cer\u00f3n Soriano was a lawyer and human rights defender. He fought for the defense of the rights of indigenous peoples and for social rights. As a lawyer, he had worked with the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Centre to defend the rights of indigenous peoples. He had also assisted parents in the case of the 43 missing students in Iguala (\u201c43 from Ayotzinapa\u201d) in 2014.<\/p>\n In 2000, Arnulfo was arbitrarily arrested, tortured and detained for a year and a half on charges of homicide. He had finally been cleared. In recent months, Arnulfo has been accompanying a group of street vendors expelled from downtown Tlapa de Comonfort by municipal decree.<\/p>\n The lawyer disappeared on October 11th<\/sup>\u00a02019 at around 8pm as he was leaving his home for a conference in Tlapa. Since that day, the lawyer\u2019s family and colleagues have been threatened. The research was only carried out late by the authorities under pressure from human rights organizations and the local population. So far, four people have been arrested in this open investigation for homicide.<\/p>\n The disappearance and murder of Arnulfo Cer\u00f3n Soriano occurred in a context of ongoing violence against human rights defenders in the state of Guerrero. The disappearances and murders of human rights defenders occur in a context of almost total impunity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The OIAD<\/strong>\u00a0strongly condemns the disappearance and murder of Arnulfo Ceron Soriano.<\/p>\n