This case was recently added to our 2014 Write for Rights cases.
On September 27, 2014, the tortured body of student Julio César
Mondragón, from Ayotzinapa in Mexico’s Guerrero State, was found.
Hours before, as he and other students from a rural teacher-training college were en route to protests against government education reforms they considered to be discriminatory, they were attacked by police in Iguala and gunmen with whom they colluded. Three students were killed. Eyewitnesses saw police take other students away. Yet authorities later claimed no knowledge of where they were. The families of 43 “missing” students were left to agonize about their suffering after learning about the torture that Julio César Mondragón had suffered.
Hours before, as he and other students from a rural teacher-training college were en route to protests against government education reforms they considered to be discriminatory, they were attacked by police in Iguala and gunmen with whom they colluded. Three students were killed. Eyewitnesses saw police take other students away. Yet authorities later claimed no knowledge of where they were. The families of 43 “missing” students were left to agonize about their suffering after learning about the torture that Julio César Mondragón had suffered.
Click here for Individual pictures of these "disappeared" students:
The W4R letter for 43 Students and more information about this case can be found in the Action Toolkit which can be found here. Please print, sign, and mail.
