Fuente: http://www.libertad-expresion.org.mx
On the 21st July, members of the Mexican Army in Oaxaca detained and condemned the newspaper journalist Ernesto Reyes Martínez, who writes for Noticias Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca and works as correspondent for the radio station XEW, part of the radio newsreel Hoy por Hoy. Ernesto Reyes Martínez was detained whilst taking photographs of an alleged detention that was happening on the federal highway. Various organizations, such as the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights (LIMEDDH) and ARTICLE19 have condemned the detention, stating that “the illegal retention of the journalist lasted an hour and 30 minutes, during which time he was kept in solitary confinement and was not allowed to make telephone calls”. It is important to recognize the precarious situation in which many journalists find themselves in Mexico, a country that is marked for being the second most dangerous in the world in regards to human rights violations of journalists. In light of this event, ARTICLE19 and Cencos have called upon the state government to “adopt the necessary means to guarantee the right to freedom of expression, as the privation of the right of society to be informed is a direct threat for the consolidation of democracy”.
For more information, see:
“Militares obstruyen ejercicio periodistico en Oaxaca”, Cimacnoticias (22/07/2009)
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