"The incorporation of journalists and human rights defenders into the Protection Mechanism for various grievances increased by 88.7 percent so far during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. At the beginning of the administration, in December 2018, 798 were registered and to date there are a total of 1,506, of which 495 are […]
"Manuel González Reyes, a reporter on the crime beat and administrator of the PM Noticias portal on Facebook, was murdered on Tuesday [Sept. 28], police sources reported. The Attorney General's Office of the State of Morelos (FGEM) specified that the crime occurred on Leandro Valle street, El Miraval neighborhood, in Cuernavaca, and that the person […]
"In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have established a People’s Tribunal to investigate their murders and hold governments accountable. The Tribunal, a form of grassroots justice, relies on investigations and high-quality legal analysis involving specific cases in three countries. An opening hearing will be […]
“On Saturday, Sept. 18, Gloria Ruíz, reporter and director of the digital media outlet CuatroP Noticias, was the victim of news blocking. Likewise, freelance journalist Ángel Maldonado was the victim of injuries and damage to work equipment by elements of the Coahuila Public Security Secretariat, called the Coahuila Civil Police (PCC), in Ciudad Acuña. The […]
"Journalists from Guerrero [Mexico] denounced the attacks they suffer while exercising their profession and pointed to authorities from the three levels of government and members of criminal groups that operate in a coordinated manner in different areas of Guerrero, with the collaboration of police forces. This position is the core of a document addressed to […]
"When deciding the appeal of Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, alias El Larry, for the murder of Miroslava Breach Velducea, correspondent for La Jornada and collaborator of Norte de Juárez, a unitary court increased his sentence from 50 to 51 years and three months in prison and the payment of compensation to indirect victims to 8,120,000 […]
"Exercising journalism in our country [Mexico] can cause censorship, intimidation, smear campaigns or threats, which can escalate to physical violence, attacks, homicide or femicide. In this case, women journalists experience a double condition of risk: the first linked to their gender that places them in great inequalities compared to men; and the second, discrimination when […]
"On Wednesday morning (Sept. 1), around 400 elements of the National Guard and another 500 from the National Migration Institute (INM) attacked migrants, journalists and activists in a new raid in Mapastepec, Chiapas [Mexico]. ... Journalists, as well as elements of the National Human Rights Commission and activists were attacked with the intention that they […]
"On the afternoon of August 13, three unidentified men abducted [Maria Teresa Montaño Delgado], a freelance investigative reporter, as she attempted to board a public bus in a suburb of Toluca, the capital of the state of Mexico, according to news reports and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview. The men […]
"The authorities of the state of Veracruz in Mexico are investigating the murder of journalist Jacinto Romero Flores, the Secretary of State Public Security, Hugo Gutiérrez Maldonado, reported this Thursday [Aug. 19, 2021]. [...] The organization Reporters Without Borders denounced on its Twitter account in Spanish that Romero had received 'prior threats,' although it did […]