Carolina Gomez Mena and Carlos Figueroa
reporter and correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday May 22, 2022, p. 12
After seven and a half years of imprisonment accused of kidnapping, the Guatemalan migrant Chuj Juana Alonzo Santizo was released from prison yesterday. The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh) celebrated that finally the Attorney General of Tamaulipas heeded the call not to continue with the accusation against Alonzo Santizo, who will be able to return to his family in Guatemala
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The state prosecutor’s office signed a freedom incident petition in order to request a hearing from the trial judge to release the Guatemalan indigenous woman, detained in Reynosa in November 2014 and who was imprisoned in a local prison.
The authority indicated that Alonzo Santizo is expected to return to his country in the next few hours. In the same way, he affirmed, the Special Prosecutor for Internal Affairs was instructed to expedite the investigations into the possible behaviors that could constitute irregularities and define responsibilities
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The Prodh Center, which was accompanying her case, pointed out that it was the support of the community, the media and organizations, such as Promoters of Migrant Freedom and the Migration Affairs Program of the Ibero, as well as the work in the last stage of the Federal Institute of Public Defense, which made visible the injustice
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