Concerns for Media After Another Journalist Murdered in Mexico Alison Depsky - The Argentina Independent
go to original July 20, 2013

Journalists are ill prepared in their fight against organised crime, but will not be silenced either. (Knight Foundation)

The Inter-american Press Society (SIP) this week condemned the recent murder of journalist Alberto López Bello in Oaxaca, saying that the lack of protection for journalists leads to self-censorship.

SIP demanded that the government of Mexico investigate the crime and find solutions to the insecurity of the press and to punish the attacks on reporters.

López Bello, 28, was a reporter for El Imparcial of Oaxaca. He was killed in the early hours of Wednesday, 17th July. His body was found with various bullet wounds in the neighbourhood “La Humedad” of Trinidad of Viguera, located close to the city of Oaxaca, alongside the body of Alejandro Franco Rojas, of the local Police.

The president of the Commision of Freedom of the Press and Information, Claudio Paolillo, responded that, “cases like this demonstrate the inefficiency and fragility of government policies to guarantee the physical integrity of the journalists.”

Read the rest at The Argentina Independent

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!