Journalist Lydia Cacho Petitions UN Rights Body to Probe Mexico Abuses Agence France-Presse
go to original October 15, 2014

Journalist Lydia Cacho (PRISACOM/Ribera del Sena)

GENEVA - High-level corruption has created an atmosphere of impunity in Mexico, an investigative journalist lamented, urging the UN to probe abuses against her and other reporters in the country.

"Impunity rules in Mexico," said Lydia Cacho, a high-profile Mexican journalist who has worked to highlight violence against women and children, pointing to statistics showing 94 percent of all criminal cases go unpunished in the country.

Her comments came amid angry demonstrations in Mexico over the disappearance of 43 students who have been missing since gang-linked police attacked them on September 26.

Cacho was in Geneva to petition the UN Human Rights Committee to look into her own case, stretching from an arbitrary arrest in 2005 through 20 hours of torture, numerous death threats and a lack of due process.

Cacho was arrested after the publication of her book "The Demons of Eden," in which she lifted the lid on a paedophilia network, pointing the finger of blame at Mexican businessmen and politicians.

She claims her arrest was orchestrated by criminal gangs and local officials implicated in her probe. She said she had heard tapped phone conversations in which a mobster bought off a judge with the offer of a trip to Las Vegas in order to jail her, and another telling the head of the jail to organise that Cacho be raped.

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Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist who has made it her life’s work to investigate sexual slavery. For her work she has been kidnapped, raped, tortured and been the target of death threats. But she is one of the most riveting and vibrant women you’re ever likely to hear or meet. (ABC)

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