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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Mexico Attorney General's Office Won't Take Action Against Inter-American Human Rights Commission Head, Emilio Álvarez Icaza

La Jornada: Gustavo Castillo García

The Federal Public Ministry [prosecutorial agency within Attorney General's Office] determined to take no criminal action against the executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), Emilio Álvarez Icaza.

The Attorney General's Office (PGR) said that ''no procedural requirements were met'' for continuing the preliminary investigation initiated by the petition filed by José Antonio Ortega Sánchez, president of the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice.

The petition alleged fraud, by considering improper the payment made by the Mexican government to members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) for collaborating in the investigation of the Iguala case and the search for the 43 Ayotzinapa normal school students.

Sánchez Ortega claimed that Emilio Álvarez Icaza, in his role as executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, could have committed fraud. ... Spanish original