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Mexican newspaper to cartels: 'We do not want more deaths'Date:20/09/2010 On the same day friends and family buried slain photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, the newspaper he worked for, El Diario, in an unprecedented move published an open letter to the drug cartels operating in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
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Monday, 20 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: ARTICLE 19 Expresses Serious Concerns over AssaultDate:27/04/2009 A prominent political cartoonist, Mario Robles, of the newspaper Noticias Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca in western Mexico was violently assaulted and subjected to death threats by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on 19 April...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Article 19 Submission to UN Human Rights CommitteeDate:13/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 has called attention to key freedom of expression issues in Mexico, including the State’s failure to protect journalist and human rights defenders from attacks, and a broadcasting system that fails to promote public interest broadcasting...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Congress should federalize crimes against free expression Date:07/04/2009 The Mexican Congress must move expeditiously to approve a constitutional reform granting federal authorities jurisdiction over crimes against free expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Crime reporter abducted and killed in Durango stateDate:28/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the murder of Eliseo Barrón Hernández, 36, a crime reporter for the daily Milenio Torreón and several regional media, whose body was found in an irrigation ditch in the northern state of Durango yesterday, a day after he was kidnapped from his home...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Journalists media outlets come under pressure after criticising public officialsDate:15/07/2009 Edilia Contreras Álvarez and Enrique Romero Vara, hosts respectively of the Voz Informativa and Sin censura radio programmes in Palenque, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, have said that the owners of the media outlets for which they work are being pressured by a local congressional deputy, Juan Carlos López Fernández, with the objective of censoring them and having them taken off the air...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Military personnel harass ''La Jornada Guerrero'' newspaper reporterDate:07/07/2009 Jesús Rodríguez Montes, a correspondent for the daily La Jornada Guerrero, was interrogated and photographed at a military checkpoint in Huamuxtitlán, Guerrero state, southeastern Mexico...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MEXICO: National Human Rights Commission detects irregularities in investigation into assassination of journalist Bradley WillDate:03/10/2008 The Mexican National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has published recommendations directed at the Mexican government, the Oaxaca State Congress and the national and state Attorney General's Offices after having detected irregularities in the investigation into the assassination of journalist Bradley Will, who was killed on 27 October 2007 while covering conflicts that were taking place in the Oaxaca State, Southern Mexico...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MEXICO: Owner of 'La Noticia' newspaper in Michoacán kidnapped and found deadDate:16/10/2008 On the night of October 9, in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in the western state of Michoacán, the owner of La Noticia Newspaper was kidnapped and his body later found in La Unión municipality, in the neighboring state of Guerrero to the southeast...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Reform of the Federal Penal Code Falls Short in Protecting the Right to Freedom of ExpressionDate:17/04/2009 The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has approved an incomplete reform to confront the prevailing impunity for crimes against journalists in the country, after a long consultative process among legislators, journalists, academics and civil society, including ARTICLE 19...
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Friday, 17 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Reporter under threat killed on World Press Freedom DayDate:01/07/2009 A Mexican journalist who was critical of local authorities in the northern state of Durango was assassinated on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day Carlos Ortega Samper, a reporter for the daily El Tiempo de Durango and also an attorney, was ambushed by two pickup trucks on his way home...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Supreme Court to review case involving writer and former first ladyDate:10/06/2009 On 4 June 2009, Mexico's Supreme Court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN) decided to admit for examination an appeal for constitutional relief brought forward by writer Olga Wornat...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: The Right to Freedom of Expression of ActivistsDate:23/06/2009 ARTICLE 19, together with local partner organisations in Mexico, is calling on the Governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, to investigate several sustained attacks against Agustín Estrada Negrete, a special needs school teacher, and his lawyer, Jaime Genaro López Vela...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico: Three Journalists Murdered in First Weeks of 2010Date:04/02/2010 For immediate release – 3 February 2010 Mexico: Three Journalists Murdered in First Weeks of 2010 ARTICLE 19 calls on the Mexican authorities to fully and immediately investigate the killings of another three journalists in recent weeks...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MEXICO: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - Article 19 Mexico Launches a Nationwide Campaign for The Protection of Journalists Date:11/12/2008 On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ARTICLE 19 launches a campaign to protect those that are at the forefront of reporting human rights abuses and informing the public about the state of the world...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
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Mexico: President Calderon warns that organized crime is biggest threat to press freedoms in MexicoDate:09/11/2010 …
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango StateDate:03/11/2009 New York, November 3, 2009;Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican Editor Detained, InterrogatedDate:11/01/2010 As Mexico prepared to mark the twin anniversary of its 1810 War of Independence and 1910 Revolution -events ushered in with cries of freedom and justice- a prominent newsman was detained and interrogated because of an article he wrote...
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Monday, 11 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killedDate:27/05/2009 Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico this morning after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican journalists create group against attacksDate:07/01/2010 Mexican journalists have formed an advocacy group in response to attacks on reporters...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican Journalists March to Denounce Violence, IntimidationDate:09/08/2010 Hundreds of Mexican journalists marched Saturday in this capital and other cities nationwide in defense of freedom of expression and to demand an end to violence, intimidation and harassment...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexican Journalists March to Denounce Violence, IntimidationDate:09/08/2010 Hundreds of Mexican journalists marched Saturday in this capital and other cities nationwide in defense of freedom of expression and to demand an end to violence, intimidation and harassment...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico criticised for weak protection of journalists.Date:22/07/2009 The federal government attributes 78 percent of Mexico's attacks against the press to private individuals and organized crime, but freedom of expression advocates blame authorities for at least 49 percent of the incidents, Liliana Alcántara reports for El Universal...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico Journalists Kidnapped as Drug Cartels Threaten Freedom of SpeechDate:29/07/2010 Mexican gang members took at least three journalists hostage this week in Durango state after the reporters investigated alleged links between prison officials and drug groups, the state attorney general’s office said...
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Thursday, 29 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mexico Journalists Kidnapped as Drug Cartels Threaten Freedom of SpeechDate:30/07/2010 Mexican gang members took at least three journalists hostage this week in Durango state after the reporters investigated alleged links between prison officials and drug groups, the state attorney general’s office said...
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Friday, 30 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United Nations Unveils in Mexico Mural Advocating Freedom of ExpressionDate:23/07/2009 The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, inaugurated here a mural advocating this right in Mexico, a country where attacks on reporters have increased in recent years...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MexicoDate:13/05/2011 International, Domestic and Regional obligations related to freedom of expression…
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Friday, 13 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Senior UN official deplores murder of third Mexican journalist in one monthDate: 19/07/2011 "The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has condemned the killing of a Mexican journalist...
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 21 July 2011
UN human rights office concerned about killing of journalists in MexicoDate: 30 September 2011 "The United Nations human rights office today expressed concern over the increase in the number of killings of journalists in Mexico this year...
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Friday, 30 September 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 4 October 2011