Overview

• Judge Mariana Vieyra Valdez of the Third Federal Criminal Court in Toluca found the Fiscalía General de la República’s evidence inadequate and issued an absolute acquittal
• Israel Vallarta Cisneros spent almost two decades in pretrial detention at the maximum-security El Altiplano prison without ever receiving a sentence
• The case record includes a 2005 AFI television reenactment of his arrest that authorities later admitted was staged, and human rights reports documented allegations of torture and due process violations
• The FGR retains the right to appeal the acquittal but cannot prevent Vallarta’s liberation, which took place on August 1 following the judge’s order
• National and international bodies such as the CNDH and the UN Committee Against Torture have long criticized extended preventive detention and called for judicial reforms in cases like Vallarta’s