"Journalist Ernesto Martínez was attacked and threatened by agents of the Sinaloa State Public Security Secretariat [Mexico] while attempting to cover a story […] on Jan. 19. According to the organization Article 19 […], Martínez arrived at the Culiacán–Mazatlán highway to report on a confrontation between officers and civilians in which one person died.
When he began recording, security agents approached him and demanded that he stop. Martínez, who works for the digital news outlet Los Noticieristas, told them he was a journalist doing his job; however, the officers ignored him and began hitting his car, ordering him to get out. […] They grabbed him by the neck and tore his work vest. They also demanded his cell phone.
The police officers took photos of him without his consent and accompanied the act with threats, Martínez told Article 19. They said they were recording him ‘to come after him at his house.’"
