Report: Mexican activist killed herself

MEXICO CITY, July 19 (UPI) -- A Mexican prosecutor has concluded that a prominent human rights lawyer who died of gunshot wounds in 2001 had committed suicide.

Margarita Guerra, the prosecutor investigating the case, will present her findings Saturday, but government officials confirmed Friday what Guerra had determined about Digna Ochoa's death.

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The Washington Post reported that many human rights officials who knew Ochoa, however, have criticized the investigation results.

"We will never stop wondering how Digna died," Laurie Freeman, who worked with Ochoa, told The Post.

Ochoa was a former nun who had won many international awards for her work in human rights. She was found dead in her Mexico City office on Oct. 19, 2001. She had been shot in the head and in one leg. A note found near her body threatened other human rights workers, The Post reported.