"In the Zero Impunity report this Tuesday [June 13], the undersecretary of Security and Citizen Protection [of Mexico], Luis Rodríguez Bucio, highlighted the 30-year prison sentence to Nicasio N, for the intentional homicide of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández on March 30, 2020. During President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's morning conference, the former general commander […]
"After several weeks of investigation and demands for justice, the National Police identified and captured the person allegedly responsible for the death of journalist and Indigenous leader Pablo Isabel Hernández. The detainee is a 22-year-old man, a native and resident of the village of Guanajulque, in the municipality of San Marcos de Caiquín, in the […]
"Dozens of communicators from Chiapas marched yesterday [June 7] in Tuxtla Gutiérrez to demand justice for the murders and aggressions against journalists, and that the practice of their informative work be guaranteed. The demonstrators walked through the streets of the state capital and concluded with a rally in front of the government palace, seat of […]
“The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (RELE, by its Spanish acronym) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denounces the situation of violence against journalists in the Americas and urges States of the region to investigate the facts exhaustively and independently, and to punish these crimes in an exemplary manner. […]
The Attorney General's Office of the State of Puebla informed this Thursday [May 25] that it identified two people allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez that took place on Tuesday [May 23] in the municipality of Tehuacán [in Mexico]. In a press conference, state prosecutor Gilberto Higuera Bernal said that he […]
“The journalist and former municipal official, Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández, was shot to death this Tuesday [May 23] in the city of Tehuacán, state of Puebla, central Mexico, the third so far in 2023, defense organizations of freedom of expression said. Ramírez Hernández, 69, was shot at when he was traveling in his car after […]
"Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had revealed [alleged] police abuse in the province of Corrientes, was found beaten and hanged, police sources in Argentina reported Sunday [May 21, 2023]. Her ex-partner was arrested Sunday on suspicion of femicide, but the family links the crime to Blanco's revelations. She was 45 years old. [...] Lautaro Cesani, 25, […]
"Three individuals allegedly involved in the murder of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández in Papantla, Mexico, have been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The sentence was handed down by a judge from the Poza Rica Judicial District following a more than two-hour-long hearing on the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023. The crime was […]
"Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was nationally and internationally recognized for his crónicas and investigations, in which he reported the violence in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He practiced journalism in the midst of the prevailing violence in Mexico and confronted, through his pen, corruption, political power and drug trafficking. For Javier, self-censorship was never […]
"Almost eight years after the crime, relatives of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the other four women murdered in what is known as the Narvarte Case demanded progress from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City, especially in determining the motive and identifying the masterminds. At a press conference held at the Mexico City Human […]