Rights Group Says Limited Access, Leaks Blocking Probe Into 43 Missing Mexico Students The Associated Press
go to original February 21, 2016

Experts dispute Mexico investigation into student deaths (Al Jazeera English)

International experts for the Inter-American Human Rights Commission said Sunday that they have run into serious obstacles in their investigation into the case of 43 college students who went missing after being detained by police in southern Mexico in 2014.

Members of the panel said at a news conference that they were concerned about being given limited access to new information uncovered by government investigators and they criticized leaks of statements from some of those arrested in the case that the panel said "don't correspond to the truth."

They also said authorities had not allowed them be present for statements by military personnel who were witnesses of the disappearance or been given access to videos that could clarify what happened that night.

Later Sunday, the federal Attorney General's Office issued a statement reaffirming its willingness to work with the expert panel and saying it already is investigating the leaks. It denied that officials have fragmented findings from the government's investigation, which it said remains open.

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