Overview
- Mexico’s CNDH formally requested that a Reynosa appellate panel ask the Supreme Court to exercise its power to take over compliance proceedings tied to the Ayotzinapa truth-commission order.
- The order stems from amparo 203/2017, under which the First Collegiate Court of the Nineteenth Circuit instructed authorities to integrate a Commission for Truth and Justice in the Iguala case.
- CNDH declared a legal impossibility to participate, citing a direct conflict of interest due to its ongoing review of Recommendation 15VG/2018, with a new project recommendation nearing publication.
- The institution warned that reviving the path linked to that amparo could repeat effects that previously enabled the release of about 60 alleged perpetrators without Istanbul Protocol evaluations.
- CNDH argued that overlapping supervisory and investigative roles would compromise impartiality and risk obstructing FGR-led criminal probes, while urging the judiciary to shield the case from uses contrary to victims’ interests.