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Former Mexican attorney general arrested on charges of abuse in investigation of missing students
Mexico's former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam in December 2014
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Palestinian Maha Elayan weeps as she embraces the body of her seven-year-old son, Qasim, who was killed by an overnight Israeli air strike on a UN school used as a shelter, ahead of his burial at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025
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MEXICAN prosecutors have arrested a former attorney general on charges that he committed abuses in the investigation of 43 missing students.

Jesus Murillo Karam served in the role between 2012 and 2015 under then-president Enrique Pena Nieto.

He has been charged with torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance.

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