Thursday, May 3, 2012

Journalists killed mexico

  • None of the cases has been resolved. Mexicos human rights commission says 74 media workers were slain from 2000 to 2011. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says 51 were killed in that time.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • Since 2000, a total of 76 journalists have been killed in Mexico -- not counting Martinez or the two photographers -- according to data from the National Human Rights Commission. CNNs Nick Valencia contributed to this report.
  • (CNN)
  • MEXICO CITY (AP) - At least two news photographers were found slain in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Thursday, less than a week after the killing in the state of a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine, officials and colleagues said.
  • (MyFox Houston)
  • Pressure groups say Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, with more than 40 journalists killed or disappeared since President Felipe Calderon took office.
  • (BBC News)
  • Nowhere is the toll taken on journalists covering organised crime more apparent than in Mexico, where ruthless drug traffickers killed 10 journalists in 2011 – making Mexico the most dangerous country for the media that year.
  • (ifex.org)
  • Mexico, it claims, is the worst affected country in the Similarly, Pervez Khan of Waqt TV and Abdul Wahab of Express News were among the journalists killed in 2010.
  • (DAWN Group)
  • In July, assailants also killed veteran Veracruz police reporter Yolanda Ordaz, who worked with Huge in Notiver. In total, more than 70 journalists have been murdered in Mexico in the last decade, according to the government-funded National Human Rights Commission.
  • (Buenos Aires Herald)
  • Since the Governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte took office in December 2010, five journalists have been killed and not one of their cases says CPJ.
  • (ifex.org)

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