In two separate events, police attacked journalists in Mexico on Jan. 30. A reporter from the newspaper Noroeste was beaten by judicial police and his camera was taken, reported the same publication. Hours later, the reporter recovered his camera but the officers had deleted the photos he had taken of a skirmish in which three soldiers died in the city of Guasave, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.
In the central state of Mexico, judicial police detained, beat and threatened the life of the editor for the newspaper Hablemos Claro, Alberto Cruz Moreno, who was taking photos of a public official they had detained, reported La Región en Línea.
"Before they would let me go, they forced me to sign and put my digital footprint on a document saying I satisfactorily received my camera equipment, and threatened my life if the truth ever got out," the editor said.
In Sonora, the state's Human Rights Commission investigated 20 cases of assault against journalists committed since December by state police and the attorney general, according to the website Dossier Político.
The organization Article 19 reported that the majority of attacks on journalists in Mexico come from security forces. See a Knight Center map of attacks on the press in Mexico, the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.
