Kenia Inés Hernández Montalván marks six years in detention amid continued judicial harassment
Lawyers for Lawyers marks six years since the arrest of Kenia Inés Hernández Montalván, an Indigenous Amuzgo lawyer and human rights defender who leads a peasant collective. It reports that she was acquitted in eight federal cases in April 2026 but remains held under two State of Mexico convictions that her defense considers fabricated, and that one acquitted case was reopened in July after an amparo filed by a federal agency. Cumulative sentences exceed 20 years. The organization argues that the proceedings seek to silence her human rights work, although its report does not specify the underlying criminal charges.