The Accusatory Criminal Process and Human Rights: An Analysis on the Unconventionality of Arraigo in México

The Mexican constitutional reform carried out with the purpose of implementing an accusatory criminal process of a right-based type, where priority is given to the protection of human rights, revealed a contradiction regarding a legal figure called arraigo (preventive detention), since this constitutes a limitation to the human rights and such situation has been controversial in the doctrine and in the resolutions of the highest Court of Mexico.