Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed
Source: Guardian/Associated Press
Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed
Experts claim the government is limiting their access to new information, including videos, about the 43 teaching students who disappeared in 2014
Associated Press
Sunday 21 February 2016 23.51 EST Last modified on Sunday 21 February 2016 23.53 EST
International experts for the Inter-American Human Rights Commission have said they have run into serious obstacles in their investigation of the case of 43 college students who went missing after being detained by police in southern Mexico in 2014.
Members of the panel said at a news conference on Sunday they were concerned about being given limited access to new information uncovered by government investigators and criticised leaks of statements from some of those arrested in the case that the panel said “don’t correspond to the truth”.
They also said authorities had not allowed them be present for statements by military personnel who were witnesses to the disappearance or had been given access to videos that could clarify what happened that night.
In response to the complaints, the federal attorney general’s office issued a statement reaffirming its willingness to work with the panel and said it already was investigating the leaks. It denied officials fragmented findings from the government’s investigation, which it said remained open.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/mexicos-missing-students-international-investigators-say-they-are-being-obstructed
