Activist Held in Murder Case Freed From Jail
From Times Wire Reports
A peasant fighting logging in Mexico’s mountains was cleared of murder charges and ordered freed after 10 months in jail, in a case that had sparked international outcry.
Felipe Arreaga, 56, who has been held since November, was exonerated in the 1998 killing of the son of a powerful local landowner, said a rights group working in his defense.
“They declared him innocent,” defense lawyer Mario Patron said by telephone from the coastal resort town of Zihuatanejo.
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