President Enrique Pena Nieto to Pardon Jailed Indigenous Teacher Michael O'Boyle and Lizbeth Diaz - Reuters
go to original October 30, 2013

Alberto Patishtan (albertopatishtan.blogspot.com)

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday that an indigenous teacher imprisoned for the slayings of seven policemen would be the first person he would pardon under a new law widening the scope of executive reprieves.

Alberto Patishtan was arrested in 2000 for the murder of the policemen, who were killed in an ambush in Chiapas state. He was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to 60 years in prison, but denies committing the crime. Human rights groups say he was imprisoned on trumped-up charges.

Pena Nieto said via his Twitter account that he would pardon Patishtan on Thursday, as soon as the new law takes effect. The lower house of Congress approved the law expanding the reach of presidential pardons earlier on Tuesday to encompass prisoners whose human rights have been violated.

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