MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s largest university announced Friday that, by court order, it was barred from reporting on the case of a minister of the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice accused of plagiarism.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico said it regretted the court order issued this week.
“UNAM regrets and cannot accept the court order which seeks to silence it, restricting its freedom and the right to information of university students and society,” the university said in a statement. .
Minister Yasmín Esquivel has been discredited by evidence that a thesis she submitted in the 1980s was an almost exact copy of one submitted a year earlier.
A university board determined that her bachelor’s thesis was an example of plagiarism, but the university said it had no rules allowing her to revoke her degree or professional license.
Esquivel refused to resign from the court. He has also denied any wrongdoing and claims that the earlier thesis copied his later work.