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Mother Disrobes Inside Mexico’s Supreme Court to Demand Justice for Son Killed in 2019

She accused Mexico’s human rights chief of breaking a promise to provide a lawyer in her son’s case.

Overview

  • Around 11:00, Silvia Castillo displayed two banners on the Supreme Court’s front steps and later undressed on the interior staircase after being allowed inside.
  • Security closed the main doors for about five minutes, then reopened them, and court staff later received her to hear her demands.
  • She sought an audience with Minister President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz to press for sentences against alleged perpetrators in Alan Francisco Ibarra Castillo’s killing.
  • Castillo said CNDH president Rosario Piedra had promised her an attorney, and she denounced judicial corruption after more than five years without a resolution.
  • The demonstration was the first protest of the court’s new public‑opening phase with controlled access and follows years of her actions at Segob, the local Congress and the FGR; Milenio reports three suspects were previously detained in the case.