By:
Hermann Bellinghausen
Tuxtla
Gutiérrez, Chiapas, August 21, 2013
The around
300 indigenous of Los Altos, who today marched in the capital of Chiapas to
demand the liberation of Alberto Patishtán Gómez, and demonstrated outside the
seat of federal justice, found no progress or response.
Representatives
of the demonstrators were received in the first collegiate tribunal of the
twentieth circuit, in whose hands is the case for recognition of innocence number
4/2012, promoted by the defence of the Tzotzil professor, who has served 13 years
in prison and faces a sentence of 60 years, accused of crimes it has been shown
he did not commit.
Despite
the time which has passed, the activists were notified that the reporting judge
who will present the case to the judges has still not been designated. This can
take at least ten days or more, as has been occurring for months, ever since
the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation declined to hear the case and turned
it over to the tribunal questioned today.
In a
document addressed to Governor Manuel Velasco Coello, the Pueblo Creyente organization
asked him to “make use of his position to speak with Minister Juan Silva Meza,
president of the Federal Judiciary Council, in order that, together with the
magistrates of the first tribunal, when they resolve the case for recognition
of innocence they conduct it, as we believe they can do, with due impartiality,
objectivity, professionalism, transparency, humanity and social commitment.”
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Originally
Published in Spanish by La Jornada
Thursday,
August 22, 2013
English translation by the Chiapas Support
Committee for the: International Zapatista Translation Service
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