MEXICO CITY: Mexican prosecutors will investigate officials who under the previous government handled a"discredited" probe into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, the attorney general's office said on Saturday .
A judge ordered the release of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, the gang leader blamed for ordering the killing of the students, after finding that officials had tortured him to obtain evidence. The previous administration's investigation had been"permanently discredited" by both public opinion and relatives of the victims, the attorney general's office said.The U.N. human rights office said in a report last year that Mexican authorities had probably tortured dozens of people during the investigation.
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