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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Daina Beth Solomon and Lizbeth Diaz

Experts accuse Mexico of hampering new probe into 2014 student disappearances

Relatives of the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teacher training college take part in a news conference held by members of a team of international independent experts (IGEI) on the 43 missing students, at the office of Mexico City's Human Rights Commission, in Mexico City, Mexico, September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

A panel of experts on Thursday accused Mexico's government of blocking prosecutions in the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers, dealing a blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who vowed to clear up the case.

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) said elements of the government had interfered with the troubled probe into one of Mexico's most notorious human rights scandals.

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