Mexico families of 43 missing students protest

The families of 43 students abducted in 2014 protested on Wednesday outside Mexico's Supreme Court as a part of a slate of activities this week leading up to the sixth anniversary of their disappearance.

Holding up posters with photos of the missing students, the relatives chanted and demanded punishment for anyone involved in the abductions.

Vidulfo Rosales, attorney representing the parents of the missing students, said the investigations were progressing slowly due to a government "network of impunity."

On Tuesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that next Saturday, the anniversary of the students' disappearance, he will give a report on any progress in the case.

On Sept. 26, 2014, students from the teacher's college at Ayotzinapa in the southern state of Guerrero were abducted by local police in the town of Iguala. They were then allegedly turned over to a local gang.

It is unclear if any of them remain alive.

Last July, authorities reported that the remains of student Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre were identified in Cocula, Guerrero, a site called Butchers Ravine, about a half-mile (0.8 km) from the dump where the previous government's investigation had been centred.

It was only the second time that remains have been positively identified as belonging to one of the missing students. The first was Alexander Mora, whose family was informed that his remains were identified in December 2014.