Student Activist Mario Gonzalez Freed After Year in Jail Without Charges teleSUR
go to original October 31, 2014

Supporters march to demand release of Mario Gonzalez. (Revolucion 3.0)

Mario Gonzalez was released from Mexican prison early Friday morning, after having been held without trial for over a year.

Mario’s mother, Patricia García Catalán, received the news of the young man’s pending release at noon and immediately informed supporters who began to gather at the Tepepan prison hospital. Gonzalez was transferred to the facility following a two-month hunger strike that ended last January.

Gonzalez and eight companions were pulled off a Mexico City bus on October 2, 2013 on their way to an annual march held to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. The activist claims he and his colleagues were arrested and subsequently beaten and tortured by Mexico City police.

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