Reporters Without Borders Supports Event to Help Mexican Journalists Reporters Without Borders
go to original July 4, 2013

Reporters Without Borders voices its support for “Sin Censura” (Without Censorship), a event due to take place in Mexico City on 11 July, in which books will be sold to raise funds to help the many Mexican journalists who are forced to flee the region where they live.

Those who have fled after receiving threats in connection with their work include Emilio Lugo, editor of the Agoraguerrero news website, who fled the southwestern state of Guerrero on 16 April after failing to obtain protection by the authorities.

Lugo told Reporters Without Borders he received anonymous “warnings” – some of them on Twitter – after posting an article about a federal police officer’s presumed murder in Acapulco, Guerrero, on 12 March.

He immediately filed a complaint and then notified the federal prosecutor general’s office, which told him it could not provide him with protection at his Acapulco home and advised him to stay in a hotel. As suggested, he moved to a hotel with his wife and stayed in it for a month.

Lugo finally left Guerrero with the help of the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, an interior ministry offshoot. In an article posted on Agoraguerrero on 24 June, he condemned the state of Guerrero’s inability to “guarantee free access to information and free expression,” and blamed Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero.

... A total of 87 journalists have been killed in the past decade, while 17 others have disappeared. And, because of threats, 26 journalists are currently living abroad or in a different part of the country from their place of residence.

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