Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan traveled to Mexico this week and openly criticized the country’s human rights record.

Irene Khan: “The purpose of Amnesty International’s mission has been to clarify the commitment of the new administration, President Felipe Calderon’s administration, to human rights and their willingness to put an end to this schizophrenic approach to human rights.”

Irene Khan of Amnesty said that flaws in Mexico’s criminal justice system currently allow for arbitrary detention, torture, denial of due process, unfair trials, political interference in the administration of justice, and widespread impunity. Last month, Amnesty urged the Mexican government to initiate a probe into human rights abuses committed last year in the state of Oaxaca.