A judge released the former mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán, Lizbeth Victoria Huerta, accused of the disappearance of activist Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz when she participated in a public protest in March 2021.
According to the newspaper Milenio, a judge of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Oaxaca released the former mayor who was accused of being the mastermind behind the disappearance of the activist on March 26 of the aforementioned year. The former Morena mayor spent four years in preventive detention and this weekend she was released by order of Judge Margarita Leonor Gopar Pérez, of the Indigenous Justice Chamber and Fifth Criminal Chamber of the state TSJ.
According to the media, the judicial authority modified the crime of forced disappearance for which she was accused and changed it to obstruction of justice, so her sentence went from four to three years and two months, which allowed her to leave prison.
“This decision will weigh on the conscience of Margarita Leonor Gopar Pérez, Luis Enrique Cordero Aguilar and Abraham Isaac Soriano Reyes, the magistrate and magistrates who decided to modify the sentence, which marks the history of Oaxaca and shows how injustice is privileged over the truth, opacity over the pain of the victims, the omission of applying international human rights standards over a limited interpretation, in other words, privileging favors to the Governor of the State, Salomón Jara, and the 4T, before favoring justice,” the activist’s sisters indicated in a statement, which had already predicted the release of the former mayor due to her influence with the Power.
They assured that Magistrate Gopar Pérez was part of Salomón Jara’s Legal Counsel.
“What could we expect from a magistrate who arrived after being part of Salomón Jara’s Legal Counsel, from a magistrate who claims to have a pluralist perspective and, not having the legitimacy of the indigenous peoples, seeks to be awarded the position of minister after the reform of the Judicial system, and finally from someone who came to this position after a scandal for performing two functions in an unconstitutional manner and violating gender parity in the judiciary,” reads the text that was shared on social networks.
Elizabeth and Sara Uruchurtu Cruz indicated that they will continue to demand justice now in the international arena and will continue to search for their sister until they find her.
The former Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration, during the mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, described as outrageous the resolution that allowed the release of Lizbeth Victoria Huerta.
“The resolution of the Superior Court of Justice of Oaxaca that modifies the sentence against Lizbeth Victoria Huerta, former municipal president of Nochixtlán for the forced disappearance of Claudia Uruchurtu in 2021, is outrageous. She thus obtains her freedom due to political ties in an emblematic and painful case of forced disappearance against a defender, granting her impunity,” wrote the current head of the Secretariat of Planning and Territorial Ordering of CDMX.
Source: infobae
