He further stressed that “Never in any government has a military officer interrogated a civilian“who headed the work of a Truth Commission, nor had there been any record of a Federal Executive branch, such as the Military Justice Prosecutor’s Office, taking action against the head of another institution of the same Executive Branch.
“During the hearing, at the express question of Judge Duarte Cedillo, Military Justice Major Jorge Alfredo Rico Pérez declared that he had filed a lawsuit against me in the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic when he was still serving as Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, which showed that the purpose of promoting that The hearing was to seek my self-incrimination“, said.
In an unprecedented act, on July 25, I appeared as a witness, in the exercise of my functions when I served as president of COVAJ, before the hearing requested by the military.
“The truth on trial” https://t.co/irQYTgk1oR through @El_Universal_Mx— Alejandro Encinas (@A_Encinas_R)
July 30, 2024
When Alejandro Encinas was Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration, he established the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case by Presidential Decree in January 2019.