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Good News! – Mexico: Indigenous leaders Mario Luna and Fernando Jiménez Released (UA 230/14)
November 2, 2015
Indigenous Yaqui leaders Mario Luna and Fernando Jiménez have been released after a judge decided that evidence against them was lacking. They spent a year in preventive detention. Amnesty International actively campaigned with them since their arrest.