Lawyers criticize Mexican government for releasing texts in student kidnap case

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators raise their fists as family members march to mark the 7th anniversary since the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa College "Raul Isidro Burgos" in the state of Guerrero, in Mexico City, Mexico, September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawyers for relatives of 43 student teachers who disappeared in southern Mexico seven years ago criticized the government's disclosure on Friday of conversations between alleged criminals and authorities linked to the case.

The students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, in the state of Guerrero. The remains of only three of the students have been positively identified.