Human rights activist Martha Lía Grajales, despite having been amnestied on February 22, 2026 by the First Control Court with jurisdiction over crimes associated with terrorism, received notification that she is still under investigation by the 52nd National Prosecutor’s Office, reported the Surgentes group, to which she belongs.
On April 10, the Prosecutor’s Office informed Grajales, co-director of Surgentes, that neither her cell phone nor her passport will be returned to her until the ordered investigations are completed. The secretary of the office indicated that this is an instruction from “higher authorities.”
Grajales was arrested on August 8, 2025 after participating in an act of solidarity with the Committee of Mothers in Defense of Truth in front of the United Nations headquarters. Three days before, on August 5, vigilante groups attacked her and other activists in front of the Supreme Court of Justice, where they were holding a peaceful vigil for political prisoners.
On that occasion, his cell phone and identity card were stolen. That same telephone number, obtained irregularly, is part of the file.
By order of the then Attorney General Tarek William Saab, Prosecutor 52 charged her with the crimes of conspiracy with a foreign government, criminal association and incitement to hatred. The only evidence on which the accusation was based was a cyber patrol carried out on the Surgentes website.
Surgentes denounced that this decision violates the principle of res judicata, maintains the criminalization of the human rights defender and affects her right to privacy and free movement.
This Monday, the organization presented formal complaints to the Directorate against Organized Crime of the Public Ministry and to the Ombudsman’s Office. Surgentes demanded that the attorney general, Larry Devoe, immediately correct the measure of prosecutor 52 and review whether this practice is repeated in other cases.
