11 Arrested During #20NovMX Ayotzinapa Protests Released From Prison
Lawyers call for resignation of Attorney General Murillo Karam
The 11 arrested during November 20th protests in support of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa in Mexico City were finally released from maximum security prisons Saturday.
A judge from the Seventeenth District Court based in Veracruz issued the release order due to lack of evidence. The 11 were originally charged with terrorism, organized crime, attempted murder, rioting and vandalism. Charges of terrorism and organized crime were later dropped.
César Roberto Jasso, Angel Ramon Dominguez Patlán, Hugo Bautista Hernández, Atzin Andrade Gonzalez, Juan Daniel López Ávila, Laurence Maxwell Ilabaca, Luis Carlos Ricardo Moreno, Francisco García Martínez, Hillary Analí González Olguin, Liliana Garduño Ortega and Tania Ivonne Damian Rojas were all detained when riot police charged the more than 200,000 protesters assembled in or around the Zócalo of Mexico City.
Family and supporters of the 11 say they were arbitrarily arrested on the street, some while riding their bikes or returning home from school. Lawyers and human rights activists also say the 11 were beaten, forced to stand against a wall for more than 20 hours, held incommunicado and denied the right to a lawyer of their choice while in detention.
“The organizations that worked in the defense of the accused…all agree that after this important resolution, Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam and Mexico City Secretary of Public Security, Jesus Rodriguez Almeida, should resign,” Karla Micheel Salas of Mexico’s National Association of Democratic Lawyers told La Jornada.
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