Mexico City. The Eighth Administrative District Court of Mexico City ordered the National Intelligence Center (CNI) not to destroy documents related to the so-called Dirty War , in the context of the suspension issued in an amparo lawsuit filed by Alicia de los Ríos Merino, daughter of Alicia de los Ríos, a member of the September 23rd Communist League, which disappeared in 1978.
The injunction was filed to locate and transfer lost, stolen, missing, or archives that were never transferred (and should have been) to the National Archives
in response to irregularities documented by the Historical Clarification Mechanism of the Truth Commission regarding serious human rights violations committed between 1965 and 1990.
Judged
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, which is supporting the case along with other organizations, reported that on September 8, the amparo lawsuit was admitted by the Eighth District Court for Administrative Matters in Mexico City.
Thanks to a ruling by the Twenty-Fourth Administrative Court of the First Circuit, the provisional suspension was granted, and on September 21, the Eighth Court followed suit by granting a definitive suspension of the trial
, he explained.
Resolutions
These resolutions, the organizations noted, recognize that family members like Alicia de los Ríos Merino have the right to demand a review of these documents, which could contain information about the whereabouts of her missing mother, as well as clarification of this period of state repression against social movements
.
They also highlighted that the Judiciary warned that the authorities of the National Intelligence Center did not refute with evidence the irregularities documented by the Historical Clarification Mechanism, but rather they have merely denied them
.
