Refusal to Re-Open Mexican Indian's Murder Case Sparks Condemnation Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original September 15, 2013

MEXICO CITY – Non-governmental organizations, political leaders and the attorney for Mexican Indian Alberto Patishtan, who was convicted of killing several police officers and sentenced to 60 years in prison, slammed a court’s refusal to re-open the murder case.

“It’s piling injustice upon injustice. There’s acknowledgment from everyone, including members of the appeals court (that received the petition), that Alberto Patishtan is innocent, yet they uphold an inhumane sentence of 60 years” behind bars, leftist leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas told the MVS radio station on Friday.

The appellate court in Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of the southern state of Chiapas, ruled Thursday that Patishtan’s defense team submitted insufficient evidence to show the Tzotzil Indian, who has been in prison for 13 years, was wrongly convicted.

Patishtan, a teacher who was convicted of killing seven police officers in Chiapas in a trial tainted by irregularities, maintains his innocence.

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