Mexico Drug War: Nestora Salgado To Be Released on Friday

Nestora Salgado
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Des Informémonos:  Nestora Salgado, Comandanta of Community Police in Olinalá, Guerrero, will be released. Criminal Court 67 of Mexico City gave the formal order for her freedom, with the dismissal of the last three criminal proceedings that were opened in Guerrero for kidnapping, robbery, illegal deprivation of liberty and homicide.

Nestora was imprisoned first in the high security federal prison in Tepic, Nayarit, and then at the Medical Tower of the Women's Criminal Prison in Tepepan [southern Mexico City] which she hopes to leave this Friday, March 18, in the morning.

The office of her legal counsel, Strategic Defense of Human Rights, wrote on its Facebook page:

"Family, social organizations, defenders have joined forces to achieve her freedom. Today with satisfaction, we can say: Mission accomplished, comandanta Nestora."

At present, the Commander of Community Police in Olinalá, Guerrero, is awaiting notification of her release, and tomorrow morning she will leave the prison. Spanish original

For more on this story, see Nestora Salgado.

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• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado's Lawyers Expect Final Decision Next Week (3/12/2016);
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• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Judges Order Nestora Salgado's Release, But She is Held on 3 New Charges (3/8/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado Recipient of "Full Punitive Power of Mexican State" (3/2/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Judges Order Nestora Salgado's Judicial Process 'Restarted' (2/26/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado, UN and State Attorney General Olea (2/22/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado Stands Tall Supported by International Law (2/21/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Government Deliberately Manipulating Judicial Proceeding Against Nestora Salgado - Lawyer (2/16/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: UN Group's Resolution to Release Nestora Binding on Government (2/4/2016);
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado's Arrest "Illegal and Arbitrary" - UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2/3/2016); 
• Mexico Drug War-Guerrero: Nestora Salgado's Letter from Tepepan Women's Prison (8/28/2015);
• Mexico: Guerrero State Superior Court to Streamline Nestora Salgado's Judicial Process (8/26/2015);
• Nestora Salgado, the Narco-State and Patriarchal Violence (8/24/2015);
• Nestora Salgado Should be Released Immediately" - Human Rights Groups (8/12/2015);
• Witnesses Against Nestora Salgado Fail to Appear to Testify; Process Delayed (8/11/2015);
• Nestora Salgado Presents Her Case (8/10/2015);
• Nestora Salgado Charges: "The Criminals Respected Community Police; The Government Wanted to Destroy Us" (6/23/2015);
• Nestora Salgado Is Illegally Imprisoned; Victim of Irregular Court Proceedings (5/11/2015);
• Mexico-Guerrero: Defending CRAC-PC In Its Time of Crisis (7/19/2014);
• Community Police and Self-Defense Groups: A Necessary Distinction (1/23/2014);
• Self-Defense Groups and Community Police Are Not the Same (1/20/2014);
• "Being a Community Police Officer Is Not a Choice, But An Assembly Decision" (9/27/2013);
• Community Police Justice Focuses On Re-Education, Study and Work for 'Criminals' in Guerrero, Mexico (6/9/2013);
• Leaders of CRAC Community Police Defend Their 17-Year Record of "Good Work" (3/22/2013).