Missing Students' Families to Mark One-Year Anniversary with Hunger Strike Xinhua
go to original September 23, 2015

Mexico: Nine injured after students clash with riot police over 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping (IBTimes UK)

Family members of 43 missing students who went missing last year announced an upcoming hunger strike to mark the first anniversary of their disappearance after riot police and protesting students clashed on a highway in southwestern Mexico Tuesday.

...After Tuesday's highway confrontation, the students were forced to return to their school. The spokesperson for the 43 students' families, Felipe de la Cruz, announced that the family members would begin a 43-hour hunger strike starting Wednesday in Mexico City's historic center.

"It is important that the doors are opened so that they can be heard," Cruz said during an interview with local media regarding the meeting with President Pena Nieto on Thursday. Cruz, students from the teacher's college, the missing 43 students' parents and lawyer Vidulfo Rosales will attend the meeting.

"The meeting will not change the activities planned for September 26," Cruz said. The date marks the one-year anniversary since the 43 students disappeared.

Mexico City's Government Secretary Patricia Mercado said Tuesday that only the 43 students' family members would be allowed to protest in the city's main square in the coming days.

The hunger strike will begin on Wednesday and end on Friday afternoon.

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