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Mexican government attributes impunity to prosecutors in murders of journalists

  • Source: EFE
  • March 17, 2022

Mexico’s government on March 16 attributed impunity in the cases of murdered journalists -seven so far this year- to the country’s prosecutors. It recalled that prosecutors are the ones responsible for investigating those cases, rather than the protection mechanisms for journalists.

'Things can't go on like this and there have to be changes. Things have to change. There is a problem of impunity, of lack of punishment, and prosecutors are not doing their job,' Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Government of Mexico, said during a symposium."

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