On 19 April, the organization Article 19, whose task it is to denounce abuses and intimidations against freedom of expression, received an anonymous message at its offices in Mexico City. The message threatens the organizations’ director, Darío Ramírez, and his collaborators with death.The organization reported that it had presented the corresponding denunciations to the Federal Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City, who is responsible for the crime of death-threats.The same day, the organization Freedom House indicated that so far in the term of Enrique Peña Nieto (since 1 December 2012), there have been registered 26 cases of aggressions against journalists and communication media in Mexico, thus expressing its concern for the “impunity” evinced in these attacks.
For more information (in Spanish):
Comunicado de prensa (Artículo 19, 19 de abril de 2013)
Amenazan al director de la organización Artículo 19 (Proceso, 20 de abril de 2013)
Exigen a autoridades indagar amenazas contra Artículo 19 (Proceso, 22 de abril de 2013)
Freedom House registra 36 ataques al periodismo desde el 1 de diciembre (CNN México, 19 de abril de 2013)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Mexico: 172 aggressions against journalists in 2011 – Article 19 (2 April 2012)
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