The Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of fifteen indigenous people who were imprisoned with false evidence provided by the Attorney General's Office, which blamed them for participating in the massacre of 45 indigenous people in Acteal, Chiapas, in 1997.
MV Note: The Acteal Massacre was the slaughter, on December 22, 1997, in the village of that name in Chiapas, of 45 members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), who were attending a prayer meeting. The group supports the goals of the Zapatistas. The massacre was carried out by the paramilitary group Mascara Roja, or Red Mask. (For more history, see Wikipedia).The First Chamber of the Supreme Court studied the evidence of innocence that the defendants provided and, as on other occasions, the justices found that their constitutional rights to due process were violated.
The justices noted that they were recognizing the accuseds' innocence, because after their conviction, public records appeared that invalidate the evidence that served to blame these people. Spanish original