Rights Defenders Warn Funds for Journalists' Security in Mexico About to End Prensa Latina
go to original April 23, 2017

In the summer of 2015, AJ+ followed photojournalist Félix Márquez as he worked under the threat of violence, as well as activist Jorge Sánchez, who was fighting for a proper investigation into the murder of his father, newspaper owner Moisés Sánchez. (AJ+)

The economic resources of the Trust Fund for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, which currently guards 509 members of these guilds at the national level, will be exhausted in the second half of the year or even before if the trend of requests for protection continues increasing.

Patricia Colchero, head of the Unit for Protection and Defense of Human Rights, Secretariat of the Interior (Segob), when meeting with representatives of the commission of follow-up to aggressions to journalists and means of communication, said she was surprised because by 2017 the legislators did not label any resource for this trust.

He pointed out that the protection mechanism currently works with last year's surplus, but that will not be enough to finish 2017.

She expressed ignorance of the reasons why the representatives did not provide a budget for the operation of this security system.

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