Eleven years after the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in the state of Guerrero were forcibly disappeared by members of the Mexican Army, thousands of people, including the parents of the students, took to the streets of Mexico City in September to demand justice in one of the most well-known human rights violations cases in Mexico. File Photo by Sashenka Gutierrez/EPA
Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Mexican court ordered former Guerrero Gov. Ángel Aguirre to stand trial over his alleged role in the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in 2014.
After a detention hearing this week, the judge also upheld a pretrial detention order, requiring Aguirre to remain at the Altiplano maximum-security federal prison in the state of Mexico.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office alleges that although Aguirre did not directly participate in the students' abduction, he was responsible for the disappearance and concealment of key evidence after the events of Sept. 26 and 27, 2014.
The Ayotzinapa case is one of the most prominent and deadly human rights cases in Mexico's recent history, Milenio reported.
