Court Orders Release of 11 Detained Demonstrators 'For Lack of Proof' Mathieu Tourliere - Proceso
go to original November 30, 2014

Case dismissed (Milenio)

XALAPA, Veracruz - Saturday, the Seventeenth District Court based in Xalapa, Veracruz, issued the release order for lack of evidence to prosecute the 11 arrested following the November 20 demonstration in support of the Ayotzinapa normal school students [43 disappeared on September 26].

In the decision that closes criminal case 45/2014, the judge found that there was insufficient evidence for the crimes of rioting, criminal conspiracy and attempted murder, and he ordered the immediate release of the 11 detainees.

Of these, three are women, who were admitted on Saturday, November 22, to Northeast High Security Prison, in Tepic, Nayarit; on the same day, the eight men were sent to federal prison Cerro de Leon in Villa Aldama, Veracruz. Those held are: Roberto César Jasso del Ángel; Ramón Domínguez Patlán; Hugo Bautista Hernández; Atzin Andrade González; Juan Daniel López Ávila; Laurence Maxwell Llabaca (native of Chile); Luis Carlos Ricardo Moreno; Francisco García Martínez; Hillary Analí González Olguin; Lilian or Liliana Garduño Ortega and Tania Ivonne Damián Rojas.

The youths were arrested by riot police who violently dispersed the crowd of protesters who remained in the Zócalo the night of Thursday, November 20, after the massive march in support of the Ayotzinapa disappeared students.

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