Mexican Reporter Describes Flaws in Safety Protection Offered to Journalists IFEX
go to original May 28, 2013

Interview with Verónica Basurto Gamero (RSFinternet)

Reporters Without Borders released this video interview in which Verónica Basurto Gamero, a young independent journalist who used to be based in Mexico City, explains why she had to flee abroad at the start of March 2013.

She also criticizes the new Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, which failed to protect her from dangers arising from her journalistic work. Set up in October 2012 and overseen by the interior ministry, the Federal Mechanism is currently supposed to be protecting 48 people, including 13 journalists.

Basurto spent eight months working with French journalist Laurence Cuvillier of the TV news channel France 24 shedding light on serious irregularities in the investigations ordered by senior Mexican officials into certain abductions, including the abduction of French citizen Florence Cassez.

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