Letter from the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center
Impunity Issue in the State of Guerrero
Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,8th of February 2010
Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,8th of February 2010
Since December 2009
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18 February 2010.
A Mexican Federal Court today ordered the release of Juan Manuel Martinez due to lack of evidence. He had been detained since 2008 for the murder of US video journalist Brad Will who was shot when filming a confrontation between protesters and local police during the social conflict in Oaxaca in 2006.
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On Tuesday December 15, 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IAHRC) made public their finding against the Mexican State in the case of Rosendo Radilla, who was forcibly disappeared at a military checkpoint in Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero, in August 1974.