Police arrested a Mexican journalist for recording a confrontation after an election from the window of his hotel room in the city of Motozintla, Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, reported the news agency ANSA.
In the early morning of Monday, Oct. 1, around 20 police officers raided the hotel room and kidnapped reporter Juan de Díos García Davish, correspondent for the newspaper Milenio and director of Quadratín de Chiapas, reported the news website Quadratín.
Milenio reported that the reporter's relatives did not know his whereabouts and the newsroom had not heard from him since 2:30 am on Monday.
According to the organization Article 19, the police are responsible for most of the attacks on the press in Mexico. For more information about similar attacks in Mexico see this map from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
