Prosecutors Demand to See the Disappeared
Prosecutors investigating the state’s role in the disappearance of hundreds of leftists during the 1970s are demanding that 27 of the vanished come forward to testify, human rights leaders said.
“I don’t have the slightest idea what this means,” said Rosario Ibarra, head of an organization for family members of Mexico’s disappeared. Her son, last seen in 1975, is among those ordered to testify.
The six pages of summonses say that families who fail to produce their missing relations could face a fine or other judicial sanctions, she said.
Prosecutors refused to comment.
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