Overview

• Gálvez formally demanded Malinali’s release after her sister was handed an 89-year sentence in March for alleged kidnapping despite evidence of staged arrest and torture by police linked to Genaro García Luna.
• Israel Vallarta was freed on August 1 after nearly 20 years in preventive detention despite similar procedural irregularities to those in Malinali’s case.
• Israel Vallarta and his wife Mary Sainz invited Gálvez to camp out in Mexico City’s Zócalo to rally public support for her sister’s innocence.
• Gálvez warned that selective application of justice leaves crime victims without redress and erodes public trust in the penal system.
• She also condemned the recent assassination of FGR delegate Ernesto Cuitláhuac Vázquez in Tamaulipas as a challenge to state authority.