| New Prosecutor in Mexico to Investigate Killing of Journalist 'El Choco' Alejandro MartÃnez - The Knight Center for Journalism | |
| go to original August 16, 2013 |
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| Armando “El Choco” Rodríguez |
The assassination of Mexican reporter Armando “El Choco” Rodríguez, committed in 2008, will be the first homicide case taken up by the federal government's newly created Special Prosecutor's Office on Crimes Committed against Freedom of Expression, reported El Diario de Juárez.
The head of the agency Laura Angelina Borbolla Moreno, who participated this week in a workshop in Ciudad Juárez (on the border with the United States) on the prevention of crimes against freedom of expression, said she has already received the files on the case from the State of Chihuahua's Attorney General.
A 2012 reform in the federal penal codes, along with recent new laws explaining how the reform will be implemented, established the new prosecutor's office. The agency, part of the federal Office of the Attorney General (PGR), can take up any case related to crimes against journalists - which usually are classified as common law crimes and fall under the authority of states - and turn them into federal investigations.
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