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(13 Aug 2009) SHOTLIST
Mexico City - August 12, 2009
1. Media and people outside courtroom where judges deliberating Acteal case
2. Interior shot of court room, judges deliberating Acteal case
3. Wide of judges during case review
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Olga Sanchez Cordero, Supreme Court judge:
"In this regard, the court will inform and notify of their immediate release, those who were granted the appeal 'liso y llano' and those who were not granted the appeal 'liso y llano,' they will be given another trial." (++CLIENTS NOTE: liso y llano is a Mexican legal term that implies that a court can suspend a sentence without having to emit another resolution++ )
5. Tilt down from top of court room to judges deliberating
6. Wide shot exterior Mexico's supreme court with group of demonstrators outside
7. Woman crying
8. Two indigenous women with their faces covered up
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sebastian Perez, Las Abejas non-governmental organisation:
"What they are doing is helping the criminals, today they are giving freedom to those responsible for the Acteal massacre. Today I bring clear proof of what happened in Acteal (he shows a magazine with pictures of the massacre), this pain that we suffered, that sadness."
10. Tilt down from flag with lettering reading (Spanish) "Peace" to group of indigenous group from Chiapas demonstrating
11. Group of indigenous women carrying crosses with the names of people killed during 1997 attack in Acteal
12. Pan of pictures and crosses on ground in front of Court building
13. Mid of crosses
14. Demonstrators holding red ribbon with stills and banners hanging from it
15. Tilt up from man placing flowers on ground to group of demonstrators
16. Man at demonstration behind banners against the 1997 killing
17. Riot police behind metal fence line
18. Demonstrators on their knees praying
19. Reverse shot demonstrators on their knees praying with a peace flag on the right side
AP Television
FILE: Acteal, Chiapas - 22 December 1997
20. Various shots of relatives of indigenous people killed in Acteal burying people killed
STORYLINE
Mexico's Supreme Court ordered the release of 20 men convicted in the 1997 massacre of 45 Indian villagers in southern Chiapas state, ruling on Wednesday that federal prosecutors had used illegally obtained evidence.
Six others serving prison sentences for the massacre at the village of Acteal will continue to be held, but will be given new trials.
"During the investigation, their constitutional rights were violated," the court said in a statement.
"The majority of cases ... were based on the use of illegally obtained evidence."
More than three dozen people, most also Indians, have been convicted in the case, and the remainder will continue to serve their sentences.
The court ruled that the illegally obtained evidence had to be thrown out.
Protesters against the ruling, many of them indigenous Indians, gathered outside the court with banners, crosses and pictures of those killed.
"What they are doing is helping the criminals, today they are giving freedom to those responsible for the Acteal massacre," said Sebastian Perez, from Las Abejas, a non-governmental organisation.
On December 22, 1997, paramilitaries with alleged ties to government figures attacked a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists who sympathised with the Zapatista rebels in Acteal, Chiapas.
Over several hours, the assailants killed 45 people, including children as young as 2 months old.
Justice in the case has been slow.

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