"[Mexican] President Claudia Sheinbaum offered support from the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists to journalists facing legal proceedings related to their journalistic work and freedom of expression, such as the case of Rafael León Segovia, whom the Veracruz Attorney General's Office accused of 'terrorism.'
During the morning press conference [on Jan. 2] at the National Palace, the federal president said that in Mexico the attorney general's offices are autonomous, but that her personal opinion and that of the government is that freedom of expression is paramount.
In this regard, she reported that she instructed the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, to implement, within the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, support for those who are accused in cases that threaten their freedom to inform.
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Last Tuesday [Dec. 30], journalist Rafael León Segovia was cleared of the charge of alleged 'terrorism,' but he was indicted for the crimes of obstruction of justice and offenses against public security institutions, as alleged by the Veracruz Prosecutor's Office."
