Friends of Brad Will

Only man accused in Brad Will murder goes free

By Monica Campbell/Guest Blogger

For those following the case of Bradley Roland Will, left, a U.S. activist-journalist killed while reporting on a protest movement in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in 2006, a long wait ended on February 18. After 16 months in prison, Juan Manuel Martínez, a grassroots activist from an impoverished neighborhood in Oaxaca, left his cell after a federal appeals tribunal exonerated him of murdering Will.

Speaking on the phone from his home in Oaxaca, Martínez said: “It was easier to implicate somebody like me than the real killers.”

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