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Mexico court orders army to hand in missing documents on students that disappeared
The court rejected the army's denial and ordered release of 853 pages to aid investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa.
- On March 4, a Mexican court ordered the army to hand over 853 pages related to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero.
- Citing the public interest, the court found the ruling dated February 19 said victims' families and society have an overriding interest in knowing the truth amid renewed investigation attention.
- International probes found organized crime members with police killed the students, but only the remains of three students have been positively identified and others remain missing.
- Families' representatives praised the ruling and Mexico's defense ministry did not immediately respond while President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would meet victims' parents this month.
- Mexico has for over a decade promised to find those responsible but no one has been convicted, though over 100 arrests and ongoing prosecutions continue in the landmark investigation.
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Federal judge Alan Arriola ordered the Ministry of National Defense to hand over “all” military documents on the Ayotzinapa case, generated during 2014 by the Regional Intelligence Fusion Center (CFRI), based in Iguala, Guerrero, as well as by other military bodies.
In Mexico, the military has to disclose more files in the case of the 43 students missing since 2014.
The Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) must disclose information that has not been published so far and that is part of the investigations carried out on the Ayotzinapa case.“The Fifth District Court on Administrative Matters in Mexico City resolved (...) and ordered the Mexican Army to deliver all the information generated during 2014 by the Regional Intelligence Fusion Center “Centro” (CFRI)”Centro ProDHIn a statement, the ProDH Center stre…
A judge has ordered the Ministry of Defense to hand over “all” of the information gathered in 2014 by the Regional Intelligence Fusion Center (CFRI) in relation to the Ayotzinapa case, as reported by the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro ProDH) in a statement this Wednesday. The court ruling responds to a lawsuit filed in 2023 by relatives of the 43 students from a rural school, who disappeared in the municipality of Iguala, …
A federal court ordered the Mexican Army to hand over all the information generated in 2014 by the Regional Intelligence Fusion Center (CFRI) based in Iguala, Guerrero, related to the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, in one of the most emblematic cases of human rights violations in Mexico.
Mexico court orders army to hand in missing documents on students that disappeared
A Mexican court ordered the army to hand over long-awaited documents that could advance the landmark investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in southern Guerrero state at the alleged hands of organized crime and local security forces.
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