Human rights experts who have tracked the investigation urge the military to cooperate with informational requests, and for prosecutors to issue more arrest orders.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, March 31. expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation.
The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts , 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. Some public officials for whom arrest warrants were issued as long as six months ago have still not been detained, said GIEI member Angela Buitrago.“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for the arrests of 83 military, police and government officials, among others, with 21 of the arrest orders later withdrawn.
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