Beaten, cut, deafened and electrocuted: How Mexico's police 'tortured key suspects in student mass m

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

Beaten, cut, deafened and electrocuted: How Mexico's police 'tortured key suspects in student mass murder case' - and may have destroyed chances of getting convictions

In 2014, 43 students vanished in Mexico and are believed to be dead

Cops arrested 110 people, including local law enforcement officers

An independent panel said all 17 suspects checked were tortured by police

One prisoner was waterboarded and had his testicles electrocuted

Torture claims could make the case - which relies on testimony - collapse

The panel also says their own investigation was stonewalled by authorities

And they add that the investigation itself was incompetent in the extreme

By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com

Published: 13:22 EST, 24 April 2016 | Updated: 18:43 EST, 24 April 2016

Mexican police tortured at least 17 suspects while investigating the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, and in doing so may have destroyed chances of successful convictions, an independent report revealed Sunday.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) studied 17 of the 110 suspects arrested in the case, and found that all showed signs of beatings, with some having dozens of cuts and bruises, and at least one other saying he was electrocuted.

Incompetence by investigators and prosecutors, as well as interference in the independent investigation, also means that the truth about what happened to the missing students may never be known, the report said.




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