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José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, former leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, has been imprisoned since August 2020 in the maximum security prison in the State of Mexico.
A judge in the State of Mexico dismissed an injunction lawsuit filed by former Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel leader Jose Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro,
A judge in the State of Mexico dismissed an amparo lawsuit filed by former Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel leader Jose Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro,” against alleged acts of “torture, cruel and inhumane treatment” inside the Altiplano prison, where he has been imprisoned since August 2020.
At the end of March, Yépez Ortiz resorted again to the protection of justice, through Berenica Antonio Jaramillo, who processed the appeal on his behalf before the First District Court in Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Mexico.
In view of this, the head of said Court, Abigail Ocampo Álvarez, decided to dismiss the appeal: “From the decision of March 28 of this year, whereby the amparo lawsuit was dismissed; consequently, it is declared that said decision has become final. The case is filed, “was published this Thursday in the list of agreements of the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF).
This is not the first time that José Antonio Yépez Ortiz has complained of torture, cruel, and inhumane treatment at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (CEFERESO) number 1 Altiplano, in the State of Mexico.
In July 2021, a federal judge granted him a “flat and ex officio suspension” so that the “incommunicado detention, isolation, segregation, cruel and inhumane treatment and torture” of which he claims he is a victim, would cease immediately.
Jose Antonio Yépez Ortiz, founder of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, one of the most violent in Guanajuato’s recent history, was arrested in the state by federal forces in August 2020.