Day of Struggle at the PGR, photo @: La Jornada, Cesar Arellano
On January 24th, as part of a day of struggle for the life of the student teachers from Ayotzinapa held in Mexico City, the fathers and mothers of the 43 had a scheduled appointment at the offices of the Secretariat of Governance. However, when they arrived they found a fence of officials that prevented them from entering.
The objective of the meeting was to have a dialogue with the new Secretary of the Interior, Alfonso Navarrete Prida, so that he could resume the commitments that his predecessor, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, had maintained. The committee of fathers and mothers of the 43 condemned “the sloth of the Secretary of the Interior with the victims of forced disappearance. Its zero commitment to human rights and justice”, and they demanded “the pending dialogue as soon as possible.”
On January 26th, 40 months after the forced disappearance of the 43 and within the framework of the last day of struggle, they made a march to the offices of the Evaluation and Control Center of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR in its Spanish acronym) to demand “the live presentation of the youths” and to denounce that the PGR has not complied with the four lines of research proposed by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE), regarding the transfer of drugs from Iguala to Chicago, the participation of elements of the 27th Infantry Battalion in Iguala, of the federal police, as well as the mobile telephone records of the missing students.
For more information in Spanish:
Padres de los 43 de Ayotzinapa acusan la “indolencia” de Navarrete Prida por negarles audiencia (Proceso, 24 de enero de 2018)
Padres de los 43 de Ayotzinapa protestan en oficinas de la PGR (Proceso, 23 de enero de 2018)
Marchan familiares de los 43 normalistas a oficinas de la PGR (La Jornada, 23 de enero de 2018)
Indolencia del Gobierno (Centro de derechos humanos de la montaña Tlachinollan, 24 de enero de 2018)
For more information from SIPAZ:
Guerrero: caso Ayotzinapa: se exige la entrega de vídeos del Palacio de Justicia de Iguala para conocer lo ocurrido (19 de enero de 2018)
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