The 2025 Global Torture Index ranks Mexico as high risk for torture, citing systemic abuse, impunity, and institutional failure in law enforcement and detention systems.
Mexico has been ranked as a high-risk country for torture and ill-treatment in the newly released 2025 Global Torture Index by the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), marking a damning assessment of the country’s ongoing human rights crisis. Drawing from 2023 and 2024 data, the Index outlines persistent and systemic patterns of abuse across Mexico’s law enforcement and criminal justice . . .
