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☆ Mexico Ayotzinapa students: military obstructed probe into disappeared students, says UN
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Karol Suarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Mexico City CNN —The United Nation’s human rights commissioner on Thursday accused Mexico’s military of obstructing an expert investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in a bloody incident that shook that country nearly nine years ago. Last August, a Mexican truth commission report concluded that the students, who disappeared en route to a demonstration in Mexico City, had been victims of “state-sponsored crime.”The students, from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, were intercepted by local police and federal military forces while traveling through the southwestern city of Iguala in September 2014. Survivors from the original group of 100 students said police officers and soldiers suddenly opened fire. But dozens of students on the buses disappeared that night, and their fate remains unknown. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks at a morning conference on July 26, 2023 in Mexico City.

Persons: Mexico’s, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Carlos Santiago Organizations: Mexico City CNN, United Nations, Human Rights, Armed Forces Locations: Mexico, Mexican, Mexico City, Ayotzinapa, Iguala

☆ Mexican president defends armed forces in missing-students case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The experts also accused the military of withholding information, an allegation that Lopez Obrador rejected. "What's most important now is the search (for the missing youths)," Lopez Obrador said. The remains of only three of the 43 students have so far been formally identified. Parents of the missing students urged Lopez Obrador to use his power to put more pressure on the military. "The president has to order them to hand over the information," said Mario Gonzalez, father of one of the youths.

Persons: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador, Mario Gonzalez, Raul Cortes, Lizbeth Diaz, Daina Beth Solomon, Sandra Maler Organizations: Training, Read, MEXICO CITY, Independent, Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers ' College, Navy, Army, Human Rights, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, MEXICO, Guerrero, Mexico

☆ Ayotzinapa: Independent experts quit Mexico over roadblocks on 43 missing students case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Sofia Cox | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), a committee of jurists and doctors, are in Mexico to investigate the disappearance of the students, who vanished during a visit to the southwestern city of Iguala. But after presenting their final fact-finding report on Tuesday, the experts said they faced a series of roadblocks, and would be withdrawing from the investigation and leaving the country next week. Last August, a Mexican court issued at least 83 arrest warrants for people allegedly involved in the 2014 disappearance, but so far no one has been convicted in relation to the students’ disappearance. “The reason why we are leaving is because we cannot go further without that information,” she told CNNE. “Really, we have delivered this report with what could be done, but we cannot move forward without that information… so that is the reason why we are leaving Mexico.”

Persons: they’re, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “, Obrador, ”, Carlos Beristain, Angela Buitrago, CNNE Organizations: CNN, Independent, Prosecutor’s Locations: Mexico, Iguala, Ayotzinapa, Mexico City

☆ Mexico security forces 'collaborated' in student disappearances, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Lizbeth Diaz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/6] Carlos Martin Beristain and Angela Buitrago, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), attend the last press conference on the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College, in Mexico City, Mexico July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Raquel CunhaMEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexican security forces at local, state and federal level knew about the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and were complicit in their disappearances, a report prepared by an independent investigatory panel said on Tuesday. "They all collaborated to make them disappear," GIEI panel member Carlos Beristain told a press conference ahead of the presentation of the group's final fact-finding report. The gang then killed the students and burned their bodies, their report said. In the crucial hours after the students went missing, at least 500 calls about the incident were recorded at a government security surveillance center, the report said.

Persons: Carlos Martin Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Raquel Cunha MEXICO, Carlos Beristain, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Julio Cesar Mondragon, GIEI, Lizbeth Diaz, Kylie Madry, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Interdisciplinary Group, Independent, Training College, REUTERS, Raquel Cunha MEXICO CITY, Inter, American, Human Rights, Army, Navy, Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers ' College, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, Iguala, Guerrero, cahoots

☆ Mexican probe into missing students beset by delays and failure, watchdog says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), human rights experts who have tracked the investigation, on Friday urged the military to cooperate with informational requests, and for prosecutors to issue more arrest orders. "We have insisted on the need for verifying and carrying out these arrest orders," she told a news conference. Prosecutors last year called for the arrests of 83 military, police and government officials, among others, with 21 of the arrest orders later withdrawn. Buitrago said the GIEI has now sent evidence to prosecutors supporting the arrest orders that were dropped. The rights experts said the military had told them that certain documents and records did not exist even after the GIEI had obtained some of those same records.

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