Susana Prieto Terrazas is a prominent labour rights lawyers who defends maquila workers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in the North of Mexico.  On 8th June she was detained.  Since then, different national and international organisations and trade unions have demanded that she is freed, holding the State government and many maquila companies responsible. Prieto was released on 1 July as trade deal with USA and Canada, which includes provisions to strengthen labour rights and trade union independence, comes into effect.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre contacted BVI, Merit, TPI, Tridonex, Kongsberg, Electrolux, Lexmark and BCS ASI to respond to the detention of the labour rights defender; only Tridonex responded.

For further information about the accusations in Spanish, see our website.