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Mexico: Four attacks on journalists take place in Chiapas state in one week

"On Feb. 7, two journalists from [the Mexican state of] Chiapas, Verónica Vega Cisneros, host of Televisa Chiapas, and Daniela Grajales, host of TV Azteca Chiapas, were assaulted by the same man while covering a story related to the death of a child in a private educational institution in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. [...] The man tried to snatch Vega Cisneros' cell phone with which she was recording aspects of the story on the street. In his attempt to take away her work equipment, he injured the hand with which the reporter was holding the device.

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Previously, on Feb. 4, reporter Alfonso Hernández, shared on social media that he had become 'part of the statistics,' as he denounced that officers of the municipal police beat him and assaulted him.

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Another case occurred on Feb. 2, during a student rally from the [teachers' school] Normal Rural Mactumactzá in the central park of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, where an aggression was documented against the reporter Rodolfo Flores, a member of the local newspaper Cuarto Poder, by an [individual named] Ángel 'N', who allegedly belonged to the National Guard in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Members of the Association of Journalists and Communicators of Chiapas (Apecoch, by its Spanish acronym) said that the reporter was physically and verbally assaulted by a man in civilian clothes, who claimed to be a member of the Department of National Defense. Meanwhile, the students identified [the perpetrator] as an infiltrator in their demonstration."

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