Judge orders Mexico’s attorney general to accept missing persons reports
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In Mexico City, a judge ordered the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) to immediately accept formal disappearance reports from 55 mothers and family members searching for loved ones.
These families had been protesting outside the FGR headquarters after the public prosecutor’s office refused to take their reports on September 9. Abogados Convencionalistas de México filed a legal appeal on behalf of the families, leading to the judge’s decision.
The judge directed the FGR’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation of Forced Disappearance Crimes to make arrangements to comply with the order and report back to the court within 48 hours. The ruling followed mobilization by search collectives including Buscando Cuerpos, Regreso a Casa Veracruz, Guerreras Buscadoras Jalisco, and Resilientes MX, who protested bureaucratic obstacles preventing them from formally searching for their relatives.
The court scheduled a hearing for September 29 to decide whether to grant a definitive injunction, and a constitutional hearing on the merits of the case will occur on October 16. The affected families are urging the FGR to comply with the judge’s order without further delaying tactics.
Mexico currently faces a crisis of disappearances, with over 130,000 people registered as missing, and mothers and family members are largely responsible for locating them due to overwhelmed forensic services and bureaucratic hurdles.
