The legal team representing the detainees from Oaxaca's political conflict presented their first formal report yesterday in Mexico City, in which they detail numerous human rights violations committed by state and federal authorities, and warned that legal protest has become increasingly criminalized in the southern state. This, as pro-government forces carried out a violent assault on villagers in a self-declared "popular township" near Oaxaca's state capital. Vladimir Flores reports from Oaxaca City.