Diploma course on prevention and documentation of torture in Mexico capable of covering the tuition fee (€633). The Prosecutor General’s Office of Distrito Federal offered to fund the course but this offer was rejected to avoid the CCTI gaining a reputation as a prosecutor or police trainers. Instead the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims financed the course. Strong links between CCTI and other social organisations was an important factor in the success of the first diploma course. A significant number of the participants in the first course were either professionals from these organisations or sympathisers. This allowed the course to develop with wide and varied interventions despite the heterogeneous nature of the group. A second diploma course (200 hours) started in November 2008 in the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Guerrero, Campus Acapulco, where the CCTI maintains good relations with the university and has the support of a CCTI unit in the city. Although the CCTI hopes that some of the graduates will join the organisation or will form other organisations working on eradicating torture, it is still too early to make credible impact assessments. Another positive outcome of the efforts to provide academic training in torture documentation was the tutorial training of a forensic physician from Bolivia, a colleague from the Latin American Network (Red Latinoamericana). This training has also provided a diploma from the Metropolitan Autonomous University based on the completion of a distance learning education combined with practical experience in Mexico. One of the main future challenges is going beyond the basic level of the first course, aiming on educating truly qualified experts in torture documentation. It is thus necessary to supplement the teaching activity with practice, through a teaching tutorial programme. Another challenge is to obtain international academic validation, to be able to verify that the graduates are qualified experts, even if they are not recognised by the Mexican authorities. The CCTI also considers a challenge the inclusion of the torture topic into the curricular subjects of forensic medicine and psychiatry. The threat of criminalization of the experts is permanent. Judicial proceedings have already been launched against the 53