The group of experts entrusted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to study the disappearance of the 43 Mexican students from
Ayotzinapa requested this Monday access to all the evidence of the report that the Government presented last week.
(Also read: Mexico’s Truth Commission concludes that Ayotzinapa was a ‘state crime’)
In a statement, signed by the experts Ángela Buitrago, Claudia Paz y Paz, and Francisco Cox, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) recognized the importance of the findings, but said that all the information should have been previously disclosed to family members. of the victims.
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The experts explained that the content of the report, presented on Thursday by Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), was not delivered to them at 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. that same day.
“We must insist that all the information must be known in advance by the fathers and mothers,” they pointed out.
Last Thursday, the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice, created by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 to resolve the case of the 43 students who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero on September 26, 2014filed his first report on the case
Ayotzinapa.
The report, the first of its kind, shook the country because it concludes that the act was a “state crime” in which authorities at all levels were involved, including the Army, and there is no evidence that they are alive.
The GIEI assured that it has not had access to the expert opinions of the tests that were presented in the report, and called for the information to be delivered as soon as possible, to everything that was extracted and to the devices from which the information was obtained.
“We did not know, nor have we directly accessed and examined the material from which the screenshots arose. Nor have we yet accessed the expert reports that were carried out on them, ”the group detailed. For this reason, he requested that both the messages and the devices from which they were extracted be delivered “as soon as possible” to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“All of this is key to evaluating the characteristics, reliability and quality of the information indicated,” they specified.
The GIEI called on the authorities to open the information on the origin of the evidence attached to the report. Specifically, they highlighted the screenshots of the conversations that appear from page 38 of the report, which would document the events prior to the departure of the students and whose content is censored.
Likewise, the experts distanced themselves from having participated in the drafting of the report, in addition to assuring that they have not named alleged perpetrators and said that once they have direct access to the information, they will analyze in depth the content of the document.
This Monday, López Obrador, during his morning press conference, assured that there will be no impunity for the people who participated in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students and asserted that “they are being judged”, after the arrest of former attorney Jesús Murillo Karam on last Friday.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from Efe
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