Mexico: Drop overblown charges and free 11 held for protest over ‘disappeared students’

Headline Title: Mexico: Drop overblown charges and free 11 demonstrators 27 November 2014 Mexico must drop overblown charges and urgently release 11 demonstrators who have been unfairly held in two remote high-security prisons after protesting at the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, said Amnesty International ahead of a crucial hearing on the case on Saturday.The organization is also calling for an immediate investigation into allegations that the police officers beat and threatened the protesters while in detention.“The evidence against the 11 protesters is so thin that it…

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