Activists and Actors Demand Release of Tseltal Prisoners in Chiapas · Global Voices

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Tapachula, Chis., Actors and human rights defenders, including Ofelia Medina and Daniel Giménez Cacho, demanded the freedom of the indigenous Tseltal Manuel Sántiz Cruz, imprisoned in Chiapas for a crime that, they claim, is innocent.

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Mexico City Disinform ourselves. Actors, defenders, intellectuals and activists such as Ofelia Medina, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Fernanda Navarro demanded the release of Tseltal defender Manuel Sántiz Cruz, illegally detained without arrest warrant in Chiapas. Sántiz Cruz was arrested in 2022 along with four other Tseltal defenders of San Juan Cancuc, accused of the death of a municipal police officer. Initially he was sentenced to 25 years in p…

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His capture and sentencing was plagued by multiple irregularities, denounced the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.